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Creek Restoration & Community Education
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Pipers Creek: Streets to Sound, 1997
Seattle, Washington
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Piper's Creek team
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Project Inception/Lead: Caitlin Evans
Participating School: Pacific Crest Montessori, seattle
Design Curriculum and Teaching: Heidi Breeze-Harris
Funding: numerous local government agencies
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Pipers Creek: Streets-to-Sound was a two-year long project involving middle school youth and the local community in the restoration of Pipers Creek.
As part of this restoration and community education effort, the students were taught communications and design principleswhich they used to create a brochure educating the local residents about hazardous and pet waste dumping and its effects on Pipers Creek.
The student- designed brochure was given to over 500 households in the Greenwood neighborhood through a door-belling effort.
The students also designed a vehicular sign and an interpretive sign to demarcate Pipers Creek as it runs through Greenwood to Carkeek Park and out to Puget Sound.
And finally, the students created a pocket park with individually designed pavers showing salmon spawning upstream in newly restored Pipers Creek.
This project had hundreds of student and volunteer hours. It would not have been possible without project manager and conceptual driving force caitlin evans, and with the support of parents and teachers at pacific crest montessori school in seattle.
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Using the brochures and interpretive materials they designed, students educated the community about Piper's Creek and local watershed health.
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Piper's Creek pocket park holds a student-designed interpretive sign, a student and student-made fish spawning pavers.
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