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Hillsborough celebrated Creek Week March 16-23 with an entire week’s worth of environmentally-themed events. Sound Rivers was there to celebrate with them.

Sound Rivers Development Coordinator Jay Potter joined board members David Emmerling, Catherine Kastleman, Lindsay Savelli and Shannon Arata at a workday afterparty at Eno River Brewing. Earlier in the day, volunteers joined Hillsborough Stormwater and Environmental Services in spreading mulch and planting native plants in a new bioswale along the Riverwalk, turning a ditch into a rain garden.

The gathering at the taproom was an opportunity to share Sound Rivers’ work and mission with those who may not have heard of us before, according to Jay.

“We were asked several times if we were not ‘located further east near the coast,’ so we spent quite a bit of time explaining the sheer scope of the Neuse watershed — how large 23% of the state actually is — and that even that high up in the Neuse watershed, in Hillsborough, their nature-based stormwater projects impact water quality in the Neuse as a whole,” Jay said. “What happens upstream, flows downstream.”