Community Collaboration Projects

The Fountain Creek Watershed District seeks to collaborate with community organizations and volunteers to implement demonstration, educational, and land stewardship projects within the Fountain Creek Watershed and downstream within the Arkansas River Basin near Pueblo, CO.

If you have a project that you think might be a good fit for a collaborative approach, please contact the Angie Schirtzinger or Susan Finzel, FCWD Outreach Coordinators.

Picture of the front yard and home of a Stratton Meadow neighborhood residence before installing a raingarden

2024 Stratton Meadows Raingarden and Food Forest

The Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers (CASFM) awarded $5000 to the Fountain Creek Watershed District and its partner, Kelly Bull Permaculture Design, for the installation of a residential raingarden in the Stratton Meadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs. See images of the site before, during and after the raingarden installation and additional information about…

Fountain Creek Watershed Project Map 2023

2024 Colorado College Student Projects

In the Spring of 2024, the District partnered with Colorado College Landscape Processes and Evaluation class and their professor Sarah Schanz. Fountain Creek Watershed District (FCWD) Executive Director Alli Schuch provided an introduction to the District, its work, and an overview of the Fountain Creek Watershed for the class in early April. Students spent time in the field observing and…

A newly reseeded area at Confluence Park in Pueblo, CO, marked with yellow caution tape.

2023 Creek Week Land Stewardship Project in Pueblo, CO

The Creek Week Land Stewardship Project in Pueblo, CO, is a Fountain Creek Watershed District collaboration with the City of Pueblo Parks and Recreation and CSU Extension Service-Pueblo County.

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