The state Environmental Protection Division recently named DeKalb County’s Adopt-A-Stream program the state’s best for large systems.
The award recognizes efforts to increase public awareness of water quality issues and well as to give residents tools to protect local waterways. It also encourages partnerships between government and community resident and groups.
In 2011, the DeKalb program hosted 29 workshops, certified 639 volunteers to collect water quality data and helped 519 volunteers remove more than 24,650 pounds of debris from area streams.
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