Follow This Blog
Rain Gardens in Eastown!
Doing garden work isn’t the first thing that comes to mind in winter months, but that is precisely what happened on Hope St. between Carlton and Benjamin! There’s a lot of planning and prep work that needs to be done before a curb-cut rain garden goes in, and folks were out in the watershed doing…
Sound Underground sound boxes
The Coldbrook Creek Community recently installed 5 sound boxes in public places along the path of Coldbrook Creek (Wilcox Park, Fulton Market, Highland Park, Mary Waters Park, and Canal Park/Coldbrook Pumphouse). Each box has audio content created by Kate Levy, former Padnos Artist in Residence at GVSU, as well as written and visual information. Narration…
CCC and AQ adopt Wilcox Park
Members of the Coldbrook Creek Community and the faculty and staff of Aquinas College recently met with the Friends of Grand Rapids Parks to discuss their Park Stewardship program (Adopt-A-Park). The goal of the program is to “improve the accessibility, environmental impact, and aesthetic of our parks”. Both the Coldbrook Creek Community and Aquinas College…
Congratulations to two Aquinas College students!
Nick Hegenauer will be graduating from Aquinas College in two weeks with a BS in Biology. Nick was the first student to work on the River Narrative project in the summer of 2022. The River Narrative project is an Aquinas College project to share the story of Coldbrook Creek- current health and physicochemical measurements and…
We All Live Here
On Thursday, April 18, volunteers from the community joined with students from local high schools and Aquinas College as part of We All Live Here day, coordinated by the Center for Sustainability at Aquinas College. They worked on a variety of projects on the Aquinas campus and in Wilcox Park, including cleaning up Coldbrook Creek…
The River Narrative
The Coldbrook Creek Community and the Center for Sustainability and Department of Chemistry and Physics at Aquinas College are working to grow a partnership around the stewardship of Coldbrook Creek. Part of this stewardship is the development of the River Narrative project at Aquinas. The river has a story to tell. We are working to…
Physical/chemical measurements
Today, a small group gathered to take physical and chemical measurements of the stream at two locations. I arrived at the Aquinas sampling location just as things were wrapping up, and was unable to get pictures. Perhaps Pete and Mary will be able to say more.
Site is Launched
We now have the site up and running. In the next few weeks, we hope to be able to add more images and stories of the history and health of Coldbrook Creek. We will also be linking with the River Narrative project at Aquinas College.
Coldbrook Creek Community 