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Get CreekSmart with Save Kittery Waters

Posted on: July 26, 2023 - 8:44am
Image of Spruce Creek, waterbody surrounded by grass

What's the Latest on CreekSmart?

This spring, visit the Kittery Town Hall, located at 200 Rogers Road or the Kittery Community Center, located at 120 Rogers Road to find everything you need to take the Kittery CreekSmart Pledge! 

Both locations are waiting for you with everything you need to make your pledge: simply fill out the short pledge form, leave it in the bin on the table and pick-up a nifty yard sign demonstrating your commitment to our community.

Show your neighbors that you're doing your part to save Kittery waters by making your pledge and taking home your sign today.  

Rather make your pledge online?  Awesome - you can do that too.  To submit your CreekSmart pledge online, please click here. 

Thank you for helping us protect and preserve the health of Kittery's waters.

Images of Kittery Creeksmart pledge and info tables at the Kittery Town Hall and KCC

Kittery is getting CreekSmart

Save Kittery Waters, in partnership with the Town of Kittery, has been awarded a 2023 Community Building Grant form the Maine Community Foundation in support of their CreekSmart campaign.  The CreekSmart Campaign aims to harness Kittery and our local seacoast community’s imagination to adopt environmental best practices and individual behaviors for a Spruce Creek Watershed that is beautifully healthy.  The information shared throughout the campaign will inspire actionable steps that will be equally useful for our neighboring coastal watershed communities.

What does it mean to be "CreekSmart" and what if we get it right?

Did you know that Spruce Creek is on the Threatened Stream and Marine Watersheds Priority List? Since 2009, deteriorating water quality has closed shellfish beds, jeopardized swimming, and most recently, contributed to large masses of algae blooms. If left unaddressed, these conditions will lead to the putrification of our creeks and shorelines.

Fortunately, Kittery cares

Save Kittery Waters, a grassroots movement of volunteers, is dedicated to improving and ultimately protecting the quality of the Spruce Creek Watershed through community education and outreach. Inspired by the marine biologist, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's beautiful question, “What if We Get This Right?" Save Kittery Water’s skilled community-based steering committee is working in close partnership with the Town of Kittery, to galvanize Kittery residents and surrounding communities to adopt best practices and a stewardship mindset with timely and relevant engagement of businesses, civic organizations, neighbors and individual citizens.

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