In the early hours this Thursday, June 26, 75 hard working volunteers will unleash their hammers at Chapel Hill High School to launch the CHHS Water Sustainability Initiative. This long term campaign, spearheaded by CHHS Earth Sciences teacher Rob Greenberg and Friends of Bolin Creek member / UNC’s Center for Educational Excellence teacher Betsy Kempter aims to reduce the aging school’s water footprint.


The Redwoods Group, a triangle based, socially conscious insurance company, chose this workday as their annual community day of service, based on its far-reaching scope and ability to impact the community. Funded and organized by Friends of Bolin Creek, this day of service will jump start a year of water activities beginning with building outdoor hydrology stations. With these stations, Rob Greenberg’s Earth Science students will learn firsthand how water interacts with sediment, model how water moves through the school campus, and begin to problem solve some of the stormwater issues faced by the aging school.


Improvements will benefit Bolin Creek, a currently impaired stream which receives the campus tributary as well as high school runoff. Further events include building rain gardens, class monitoring of the campus stream, and community outreach workshops. Read more here…..