OUR LATEST NEWSLETTER – SEPTEMBER 2023
See all that our wonderful volunteers accomplished last month, and what projects are coming up this month!
FLOW IS WORKING WITH CENTRAL OHIO ARTISTS TO TURN STORM DRAINS INTO PUBLIC ART IN THE SHORT NORTH!
After a very successful storm drain art project in the OSU campus area, FLOW is planning a similar project in Columbus’ Short North area to continue raising awareness about how everything that goes in the storm drain goes right into the river.
Ten local artists will be chosen to paint storm drains in the Short North area on October 7 (rain date October 8). We were amazed by the beautiful artwork created by our first round of artists and look forward to seeing even more talented submissions for our second round of storm drain art!
Follow us on Instagram, @FlowColumbus and Facebook, Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed for updates.
Columbus Storm Drain Art Project Walking Tour – OSU campus area
Did you miss a FLOW webinar? Our webinars are recorded and available on our YouTube channel.
January Volunteer of the Month: Alex Roller-Knapp
ALEX ROLLER-KNAPP Alex Roller-Knapp is our January Volunteer of the month! Alex is an avid volunteer with FLOW, spearheading our Macrofest and Earth Day River clean ups. He volunteers with FLOW because he finds it “very rewarding to see water quality improvements made...
Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed (FLOW)Education and Outreach: Heather Robinson, Environmental Crimes
Monday, November 11, 2019 at 6 PM – 7 PM Columbus Metropolitan Library - Whetstone Branch 3909 N High St, Columbus, Ohio 43214 Heather Robinson is the Director of the Environmental Crimes Unit of the Franklin County Prosecuting...
Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed presents: BluePrint-Clintonville Rain Gardens: Impacts on Storm Water and Habitat, by Dr. Jay Martin
Please join FLOW for this presentation by Ohio State University Professor of Ecological Engineering, Dr. Jay Martin, on Thursday September 26th from 6 - 7 pm. This presentation will take place in the Whetstone Library Conference Room. After Dr. Martin’s...
Tree Cover in Columbus
Powtoon - 5 Ways Urban Trees Benefit Columbus Credits: Video by Hilary Hirtle and used with permission.
On the Hunt for Conservation Easements: Past, Present, and Future
A major goal of FLOW’s Lower Olentangy Greenspace Plan project was to inventory and map existing green and open spaces within the Lower Olentangy Watershed. This not only includes the obvious suspects such as parks, but also more obscure parcels such as conservation...
How to Plant a Tree, and Why
*Article and Photos by Adrien DeLapp October 2018, FLOW planted more than 100 trees between a variety of schools, including Gables, Maize, and Salem Elementary as well as Hamilton Stem Academy. Against all odds (cold, rain, and mud) these tree plantings were a...
The Olentangy Greenspace Plan: First Data Insights
Central Ohio is growing and showing no signs slowing down. Updated projections are for another 600,000 more residents by 2050, increasing our region’s population to 3 million strong. In fact, Delaware County has been the fastest growing county in the state since the...
Event Calendar
Greenspace Survey Results (through 3/29/2019)
The FLOW Survey on Green and Open Space in the watershed is still active, to take the survey click on the button. Shown below are survey results through March 29,...
EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED – video tells FLOW’s story
Thanks to a very generous gift from one of our supporters, FLOW would like to share this video of the Olentangy Watershed and what we can accomplish if we all work together to improve our greenspaces. There is a lot of pressure on our waterways but we can combat impacts if we work in the spaces we control to reduce our 40% turf grass, remove invasive species, plant native herbaceous and woody species and clean up litter. To learn more about what you can do, please see our Greenspace Implementation report.
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