How Can I Help Dardenne Creek?
Dardenne Creek is one of only eight healthy stream systems in Jefferson, St. Louis, and St. Charles counties. However, its health is challenged by extensive urban sprawl and some land use practices. Dardenne Creek and its watershed needs your help if it is going to stay healthy.
Here are some things you can do to help:
- Form or join a Stream Team and adopt Dardenne Creek
- Get involved in the Dardenne Creek Alliance
- Ask the Department of Natural Resources to fully-enforce existing laws governing sedimentation in and around Dardenne Creek
- Ask the St. Charles County Commission to preserve Dardenne Creek by establishing parks and conservation-oriented development rules for its watershed
- Ask the St. Charles County Commission to only allow development that will not harm Dardenne Creek
- Ask the St. Charles County Commission and Department of Natural Resources to protect Dardenne Creek's water quality
- Ask the St. Charles County Commission and Department of Natural Resources to control stormwater and sewage runoff from new and existing developments
- Comment on Planning and Zoning changes or developments that may harm Dardenne Creek
- Encourage and help Dardenne Creek landowners to plant trees along streambanks
