Grants to advance Plaster Creek effort
The Plaster Creek Stewards (PCS) is a collaboration of Calvin faculty,
PCS has received two grants, one for $629,178 from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) and another for $178,837 from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Since 2011, PCS has received nearly $3 million in grants.
The newest MDEQ grant supports all three PCS areas of focus, including education,
鈥淥ur mission is not just to clean up a creek. If that was true, we could get it all cleaned up and leave. But if behaviors don鈥檛 change, it will become degraded again,鈥 said Dave Warners, professor of biology. 鈥淭he key is to address the relationship, get people to care for the creek and start to develop an affection for it.鈥