What is the Collaborative?
A network of organizations and initiatives that work collaboratively to protect and restore natural areas and promote stormwater solutions for a healthy Lake Erie and local streams/its tributaries.
Find Your Watershed
Collaborative Partners
Partner Organizations With Staff
Big Creek Connects
Chagrin River Watershed Partners
Cuyahoga River Restoration
Doan Brook Watershed Partnership
Friends of Euclid Creek
Mentor Marsh / Arcola Creek / McKinley Creek
Mill Creek
Rocky River Watershed Council
Bluestone Heights
Tinker’s Creek Watershed Partners
West Creek Conservancy
Erie Conservation District
What issues do our watersheds face?
The range of watersheds between the Huron River and Pennsylvania is vast. The landscape includes dense urban cores and wide-open agricultural spaces. Yet, all the watersheds share common challenges and an ultimate goal: to provide Lake Erie with healthy fresh water — our drinking water.
Water quality issues include: high-volume runoff, non-point source pollution (fertilizer, pesticides, gas, oil, soaps, pet waste), habitat fragmentation, erosion and sedimentation. The CLEB gives watershed groups an opportunity to collaborate on solutions to these shared issues. Environmental challenges don’t have boundaries—neither should our efforts to solve them!
Thank YOU for helping local waterways.
What does CLEB do?
Northern Ohio leads the state in the number of organizations striving to restore local waterways. These organizations are now collaborating on grants, stormwater management, restoration, education and policy. Working together, we are able to harness shared strengths and increase efficiency.
How can the public help?
The health of our watersheds is impacted by every person’s decisions and actions at home, in our yards, at businesses and in our communities. You can take individual and collective actions to effectively conserve, enhance, restore and manage watershed resources for the benefit of all.
Want to learn more? Click here to download 25 ways you can help our watershed!
Reach Out to us Directly
Click to view the contact info for each partner organization
Big Creek Connects – info@bigcreekconnects.org
Chagrin River Watershed Partners – contact@crwp.org
Cuyahoga River Restoration – info@cuyahogariver.org
Doan Brook Watershed Partnership – info@doanbrookpartnership.org
Friends of Euclid Creek – FriendsofEuclidCreek@gmail.com
Mill Creek Watershed Partnership – info@westcreek.org
Rocky River Watershed Council – jbartley@cuyahogaswcd.org
West Creek Conservancy – info@westcreek.org
Bluestone Heights – roylarick@gmail.com
Tinkers Creek Watershed Partner – info@tinkerscreekwatershed.org
Erie Conservation District – BHohman@eriecounty.oh.gov
Black River Area of Concern – lorainblackriveraocac@gmail.com
Friends of Yellow Creek – friends@yellowcreekwatershed.org
Lake Soil and Water Conservation – morndorff@lakecountyohio.gov
Grand/Ashtabula/Conneaut – Matthew.Smith@dnr.state.oh.us
The Nature Conservancy – abrennan@TNC.ORG