With seed funding from the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment (https://rosefdn.org/), Creek Lands Conservation is working to address long-standing water quality and habitat degradation in the Santa Maria River watershed through outreach to the community. We are:

• Training Young Adult Committee members of CAUSE to test the quality of the water in the Santa Maria River estuary
• Working with state and regional agencies to design water quality and water quantity improvement projects
• Devising a watershed report card framework to interpret collected data in an easy to understand format
• Providing outreach events to educate and engage the community in their local watershed health

This is the first community-based watershed group development effort for the Santa Maria River.