• The San Diego City Council acts to support the Assessment on Oct. 21, 2008! After almost five years of consideration and public input, the City of San Diego has accepted the Rose Creek Watershed Assessment as a guidance document for City activities in the watershed. Watershed Alliance supporters sent letters to the council and spoke at the meeting.  Next step – implementation of the recommendations!

• First Five Tasks of Watershed Hydrology Study Completed
  One of the recommendations of the Rose Creek Watershed Opportunities Assessment, 2.6.1, was to develop more accurate hydrologic information about the watershed. This information is essential for planning, designing and implementing large scale watershed restoration and enhancement projects. The first five tasks of a watershed hydrology study have been completed and we are currently scoping the remainder to be completed in 2009-10. See the reports at http://www.rosecreekwatershed.org/hydrologystudy.html.

• Connecting People to the Watershed
  Assessment Recommendation 2.5 includes a series of suggestions to improve safe recreational access to the watershed while protecting its natural resources.  Steps are underway to implement those recommendations.  A grant was submitted by the project’s fiscal agent, San Diego Earthworks, to refine the trail improvements suggested in the Assessment to connect the upper and lower watershed from near the end of the existing Rose Canyon bicycle trail at Santa Fe Ave to the start of the existing bicycle path at Mission Bay Drive. The goal is to provide safe access from the upper watershed to Mission Bay without having to cross a road. That grant is due to be considered in Spring 2009. If funded, a public stakeholder process would occur. E-mail us if you would like to participate in the stakeholder process. info@rosecreekwatershed.org
  
  

Bicycling in Marian Bear Memorial Park
Photo: Walter Shaw, Marian Bear Natural Park Recreation Council

• Help Design a new Gateway to Mission Bay where Rose Creek Meets the Ocean
  Both the adopted Mission Bay Plan and the Rose Creek Watershed Assessment call for the creation of new wetlands where Rose Creek meets the ocean. A workshop and field trip to help begin that planning process were held in October 2007. Additional funding is currently being sought to continue that planning process.
  Click here to see maps of the planning area.
  
  
• Rose Creek Clean and Safe Survey
  The survey results are in and over 80% of the responding property owners support investigating the formation of a Rose Creek Clean and Safe Program funded by a maintenance assessment district. The respondents asked that a budget be developed for property owners to consider. We are currently seeking funding to advance this project to enhance the health and safety of the creek.
  Click here to see a copy of the survey.