Arroyo Viejo - Waters of Connection



Welcome to the Wiki page for Arroyo Viejo Creek Restoration

Watershed Name
Arroyo Viejo Watershed

Subwatershed Name
Rifle Range Branch, Country Club Branch, Melrose Highlands Branch, 73rd Avenue Branch

Active Creek and Watershed Groups
Friends of Two Creeks
 * Contacts:
 * Robin Freeman, Environmental Program Director, Phone: (510) 434-3840/434-3841; email: [mailto:rfreeman@merritt.edu rfreeman@merritt.edu]m
 * Paul Richards,, Director of Facilities, Phone: (510) 430-2056; Email: [mailto:paulr@mills.edu paulr@mills.edu]
 * Ruby Stein
 * Phone:
 * Email:
 * Web:
 * Meetings: Usually once a month as scheduled
 * Newsletter: none
 * Mission: none
 * Founded: December 2002
 * Partners:
 * Mills College
 * Merritt College Environmental Program
 * East Bay Watershed Center
 * Annual Budget: Matching funds through Mills and Merritt only so far
 * Funding Sources:
 * Paid Staff: none
 * Stewardship Activities: 1 clean-up held in 2003
 * Activities:
 * Other Activities:

Arroyo Viejo Creek Restoration at Oakland Zoo/Knowland Park
Contributing Organizations:
 * City of Oakland
 * Oakland Zoo
 * Alameda Flood Control
 * Wolfe Mason & Associates
 * Urban Creeks Council(Drew Getting)

Holy Redeemer Campus Daylighting Project
Contributing Organizations: 
 * Holy Redeemer College
 * Urban Creeks Council
 * City of Oakland DWR

Earth Day 2003 Creek clean-up and bank re-vegetation
Contributing Organizations:


 * Arroyo Viejo Recreation Center


 * City of Oakland

Maps
Oakland Museum Creek Map

Local Agencies & Contacts
City of Oakland - Ali Schwarz Environmental Services Division (510) 238-7074 [mailto:aschwarz@oaklandnet.com aschwarz@oaklandnet.com]

Other Major Land Managers and Contacts

 * Mills College- Paul Richards,Director of Facilities, (510) 430-2056, [mailto:paulr@mills.edu paulr@mills.edu]
 * Merritt College- Robin Freeman, Enviromental Program Chair, (510) 434-3840, [mailto:rfreeman@merritt.edu rfreeman@merritt.edu]
 * Holy Redeemer College - Father Greg Schmitt, Sequoyah Country Club(510) 635-6341, [mailto:gregcssr@aol.com gregcssr@aol.com]
 * Sequoyah Country Club
 * Oakland/Knowland Zoo - Anne - [mailto:Anne@oaklandzoo.org Anne@oaklandzoo.org]
 * King Estates Open Space
 * Evergreen Cemetery
 * Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
 * Western Pacific Railroad
 * Southern Pacific Railroad
 * East Bay Regional Parks District - Martin Luther King Shoreline, Leona Heights Regional Open Space