by admin | Nov 17, 2015 | Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek Watershed, Bolin Forest, Pavement next to creeks
Friends of Bolin Creek sent this letter to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen expressing our strong concern that the Climate Change Task Force recommended a paved road next to Bolin Creek. The Board decided to remove the controversial wording and also asked the staff to...
by admin | Aug 27, 2015 | Bolin Creek Watershed, Building Rain Gardens
You can learn how to build a rain garden and improve the health of our creeks in our ongoing Rain Garden Program. Thanks to a Strowd Roses grant, Friends of Bolin Creek has continued our outreach this year to teach community members how easy it is to build a rain...
by admin | Jan 17, 2015 | Bolin Creek Watershed, Jordan Lake
A group of residents of Meadowmont Village gathered at the Little Creek Trailhead on January 15 to begin participation in Clean Jordan Lake’s Adopt-A-Feeder Stream Program. Bolin Creek and Booker Creek join together in Chapel Hill to form Little Creek that flows...
by admin | May 23, 2014 | Bolin Creek Watershed, Coal Ash Dump and Bolin Creek, Conservation, Jordan Lake
Coal Ash Letter Dear Mayor Kleinschmidt and Town Council members: Friends of Bolin Creek are writing to urge you to clean up the large coal ash dump in the center of Chapel Hill. It would be a grave mistake to follow the lead of the N.C. Department of Environment and...
by admin | Jul 28, 2013 | Bolin Creek Watershed, Bolin Forest, Greenways see damage from floods
Carrboro has begun to implement a Greenways Plan. To understand what the term “Greenway” means read more here. The first section to be paved is only months old. It begins opposite Estes Apartments on Estes Drive Extension. See #1 on this Map to orient...
by admin | Feb 17, 2013 | Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek Watershed, Bolin Creek Wildlife, Claremont South
URGENT: BOLIN CREEK We are asking you to take action by contacting the Town of Carrboro’s elected representatives if you share our concern about Claremont South, a development proposal. One of Carrboro’s most beautiful meadows, also a wildlife habitat that backs up to...
