Rocky River Watershed Council

The kill, which stretched ~3 miles from between Bonnie Park in Strongsville and Wallace lake in Berea, killed tens of thousands of individual fish of a variety of species. 

Coverage can be found at the following:

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/04/thousands_of_fish_die_in_rocky.html…

It's a side of the Rocky River watershed that very few individuals have ever witnessed. However, this scene plays itself out on a daily basis in some of the most remote corners of the watershed. This video, recorded by Natalie Moore during the assessment of a primary headwater stream by Cleveland Metroparks Natural Resources staff, shows a larval Northern Red Salamander feeding on a larval caddisfly called a Netspinner Caddisfly.…

It doesn’t take a meteorologist to know that 2011 was a wet year.  Local precipitation records were not only broken, but were shattered by over 10 inches.  One storm in late July dropped 4 inches of rain over a 2-hour period in portions of the Rocky River Watershed.  And who could forget the flood of February…

Courtesy of Pat McGannon from the Bay Village Green Team.

Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD), in partnership with Medina County SWCD, Lorain SWCD and the Rocky River Watershed Council, has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the Great Lakes Commission to reduce sediment loading in the Rocky River Watershed.  The three-year project will  focus on three target subwatersheds with known sediment issues—Baldwin Creek, Mallet Creek and Plum Creek (the Plum Creek that flows into the West Branch in Olmsted Falls).  The Rocky River’s…

As we fish or hike the Rocky, it would be terrific if we could all take a garbage bag and pick up any trash we encounter.  Even if we just pick up one piece of trash per visit, it would impact all of our experiences on the River.  Thanks for all the efforts on keeping it clean.