Newsletters and Studies

Spring 2021 (PDF)
Highlights:
Village at Willow Brook Stream Habitat Restoration
FLOW Volunteers of the Season: Zach Fisher and Samir Jain
Fall 2020 (PDF)
Highlights:
Preserving the Sawmill Wetlands Educational Area
FLOW 2020 Recap
Education and Outreach Working to Meet the Needs of Families During At-Home Learning
COVID and FLOW
FLOW Autumn 2020 Vollunteer: Lindalee Brownstein
Spring 2020 (PDF)
Highlights:
A Partnership that Works
FLOW Native Tree Nursery
Revised Watershed Action Plan Expected This Summer
Fall 2019 (PDF)
Highlights:
Greenspace Planning Tool Ready
Winning the Invasives War at Perry and Snouffer Parks
Blue Heron Award
One Litte Thing (packaging waste)
Spring 2019 (PDF)
Highlights:
From Pavement to Green Space: Hamilton STEM Academy
Tackling Olentangy Trail Flooding
Kempton Run’s New Habitat
One Little Thing (leave dried plants standing)
Fall 2018 (PDF)
Highlights:
The Future of Olentangy Watershed Greenspace
Restoring Slyh Run
Anheuser-Busch’s Landscaping Makeover
One Little Thing (raking leaves)
Spring 2018 (PDF)
Highlights:
Saving Carmack Woods
Rush Run: A Gem in the Rough
One Little Thing (plastic straws)
Fall 2017 (PDF)
Highlights:
20 Years of Progress
Webster Park
Greenspace Planning Grant
Beauty and the Butterflies
Spring 2017 (pdf)
Highlights:
Pollinator Pathways
Recycling Survey
Why Trees Matter
Blueprint Columbus
Stream Quality Monitoring
Fall 2016 (PDF)
Highlights:
Anheuser Busch’s Vision for Rush Run
Calling all Wet Basements
Chemical Abstracts Riverbank Upgrade
Back to School River Cleanup
Measuring Stream Health
Coffee Pods made Useful
On the Slyh
Spring 2016 (PDF)
Highlights:
Love your Urban Trees
When Plants Go Bad
Going Batty
Life Cycle of a Cigarette Butt
Rain Gardens
Fall 2015 (PDF)
Highlights:
Shady Doings in Linden
Small Beads, Big Trouble
Healthy Ponds Ahead
Anheuser-Busch River Cleanup
Taking PRIDE in our River
My Favorite River Spot
Our Volunteers: Changing the Watershed
Spring 2015 (PDF)
Highlights:
A Fund for FLOW’s Future
Coming Attractions
Solving the Plastic Bags Dilemma
The Transformation of Clinton-Como Park
My Favorite River Spot
Linden to Become Leafier
Trees for Mom…or for Others
Summer 2014 (PDF)
Highlights:
Adopt your Pond for a Cleaner Olentangy River
Big Spring Tree Planting at Ohio School for the Deaf
5th Ave. Dam Removal – a New Beginning
New Butterfly Gardens at Worthington Hills and Clinton Como Park
Urban Rainscapes!
Fall 2013 (PDF)
Highlights:
Olentangy River Water Trail to Make a Splash this Fall
Sustainable Stormwater Management Comes to Weiland Park
Olentangy River Restoration Continues
Worthington Canoe Access Invites Paddlers to the Olentangy
Spring 2013 (PDF)

Spring 2012 (PDF)
Winter 2012 (PDF)
Spring 2011 (PDF)
Winter 2011 (PDF)
Fall 2010 (PDF)
Summer-Fall 2010 (PDF)
Spring – Summer 2010 (PDF)
Winter 2010 (PDF)
Fall 2009 (PDF)
Summer 2009 (PDF)
Spring 2009 (PDF)
Winter 2009 (PDF)
Fall 2008 (PDF)
Spring 2008 (PDF)
Fall 2006 Three-Petal Conservation Letter (PDF)

Additional Studies, Updates and News of the Olentangy River

- Fifth Year Monitoring of the Fifth Avenue Dam Removal and Lower Olentangy River Ecosystem Restoration Project – Stantec Consulting Services, for the City of Columbus, 11/27/2019.
- Fourth Year Monitoring of the Fifth Avenue Dam Removal and Lower Olentangy River Ecosystem Restoration Project – Stantec Consulting Services, for the City of Columbus, 11/6/2018.
- Third Year Monitoring of the Fifth Avenue Dam Removal and Lower Olentangy River Ecosystem Restoration Project – Stantec Consulting Services, for the City of Columbus 12/15/2017.
- Second Year Monitoring of the Fifth Avenue Dam Removal and Lower Olentangy River Ecosystem Restoration Project – Stantec Consulting Services, for the City of Columbus, 9/30/2016.
- First Year Compliance Report 2015 – 5th Ave Dam – Prepared by DLZ.
- Baseline monitoring for 5th Ave Dam project (see page 66 of this compilation of Ohio EPA studies) – 2011 Wildcat Run and 5th Avenue Dam Removal Baseline Data
- 2016 Olentangy River & Tributaries Fish & Habitat Surveys Mark Dilley, MAD Scientist Associates, LLC, Westerville, Ohio.
- FLOW: Backyard Conservation Booklet
- Ohio EPA: Storm Water Associated with Construction Activity Located Within Portions of the Olentangy River Watershed
- Ohio EPA’s Olentangy Total Maxiumum Daily Load Study, October 2006
  - Appendix A: Supplemental Maps
  - Appendix B: Supplemental Tables and Figures
  - Appendix C: Use Attainment Status
  - Appendix D: Response to Public Comments
- The Lower Olentangy River Watershed Lowhead Dams Feasibility Study, December 2005 (PDF, 5.5 MB)
- Biological and Water Quality Study of the Olentangy River, Whetstone Creek and Select Tributaries, 2003-2004, December 2005 Appendices
- Ohio EPA: Biological and Water Quality Study of the Olentangy River and Selected Tributaries, 1999. Delaware and Franklin Counties, Ohio. 2001
- FLOW Watershed Brochure – general Olentangy watershed info