Shoal Creek Conservancy

Community Engagement: The Conservancy facilitates a variety of programs to engage Austinites, including regular volunteer workdays, educational trail tours, and stakeholder meetings to involve the community in the process of creating improvement goals for Shoal Creek and the Shoal Creek Trail. The organization led 41 volunteer events with 470 volunteers. Volunteer workdays resulted in nearly 14,000 pounds of trash removed from Shoal Creek, 2,000 native seed balls distributed along the creek's bank and 460 native plants planted. We organized 10, free Shoal Creek Trail Tours for the public with 113 attendees. We also hosted the inaugural Shoal Creek Shopping Cart Corral and removed 48 shopping carts from the creek.

Watershed Action Plan: The Shoal Creek Watershed Action Plan represents the beginning of a decades-long effort to restore the community's ability to fish, swim and play safely in Shoal Creek. The Conservancy is working with environmental professionals and community stakeholders to identify science-based, actionable steps to improve water quality, halt erosion, restore native habitat, and more.

Trail Plan: The Shoal Creek Trail Plan is a plan to create a seamless, connected pathway along the entire 11-mile Shoal Creek corridor, integrating Shoal Creek into a citywide network of urban trails.