Opportunities:
- Stream Clean Ups
- Streambank Plantings
- Water Quality Monitoring
- Fundraising Events
- Kids in the Creek Program
- Administrative Support
Protecting Water Quality in the
Pigeon River Watershed
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Annoucements
2025 HWA Calendar Sale
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Helene Cleanup
Funding for the current Helene Cleanup Program has been frozen at the federal level and HWA is no longer able to pay our 15 person crew as of March 2025. We hope to see this funding source return, but for now the paid cleanup crew program is no longer. We are not able to accommodate any additional requests for cleanups on private property at this time.
We are not done with cleanups! This will be a 10 + year project and it’s not going away (much like after Fred), so we are shifting our focus back to volunteer cleanups to keep assisting our community.
Be on the lookout for Volunteer Cleanup events on our calendar.
Areas of Work
Our Mission
To maintain and improve surface water quality in the Pigeon River Watershed of Haywood County, North Carolina.
We accomplish this through two objectives directed at reducing nonpoint source pollution:
- Educating and focusing attention on the watershed as a natural, economic and recreational resource to be conserved and enhanced for this and future generations; and
- Working with public agencies, conservation interests, businesses, community groups, and public and private land owners to implement water quality improvement strategies.
Upcoming Events
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