The Bainbridge Island Watershed Council applauds and thanks the Earth Service Corps for this important work they are doing to reduce our stormwater runoff impacts on our water quality and environment. 

Tad Sooter reported on their efforts in the Bainbridge Review.  The full article can be read here.

Protected from grime by hot-pink gloves, and armed with a crowbar, Bainbridge High School student Robert Curran pried back the grate covering a Winslow Way stormwater drain. Curran, along with Natasha Hjerrild and Katherine Yagle, were getting grubby last week, fitting filters in downtown drains. Signs embedded in the roadway beside the openings remind passersby that rains sweep pollutants and debris off the pavement, though stormwater pipes and into Eagle Harbor. But for a few dozen island drains the Earth Service Corps members act as gatekeepers for the bay, installing and maintaining filters that remove much of the chemicals and nutrients that make runoff a major contributor of pollution in Puget Sound.

Using Associated Student Body funds, the club has been quietly performing the service for years. But this spring they're spreading the word about their program in the hopes that a larger organization, ideally the city, will take on the challenge and begin stormwater filtration on a grander scale...