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Saturday, May 4, 2024

Moore Center Field, 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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Consider a pledge spread over 3 years (2023, 2024 and 2025). Here is the pledge form.

Any amount will help. We hope to open in the summer of 2025.

Flat Creek Crossing Accessible Trail Pledge Form (PDF)

Please make checks payable to the Town of Montreat with Flat Creek Crossing on the memo line,
and mail them to:

Montreat Landcare Committee
P.O. Box 92
Montreat, NC 28757

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Come join our work crew on June 8, 9, and 10, 9:00 – Noon at the trail site by the Montreat Gate. We will be moving rocks, pulling invasives, and doing some labeling of plants and trees. Bring work gloves and basic tools, water, and snack. Be prepared to work around poison ivy. Learn all about plans for the trail.

Questions call George Sawyer (803) 371-2524 or Patti Pyle (262) 573-8242

Visit Flat Creek Crossing Accessible Trail to learn more.

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The intent of the brochure is to explain how a rain garden works, promote use of rain gardens by homeowners, and provide resources to do so. The brochure was provided by funds from the Landcare Committee and is available at the Town Hall rain garden and by CLICKING HERE. Pick up a copy, then build your own rain garden!

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In 2020 new discoveries of the wonder of Flat Creek are being made by a group of “citizen scientists.” Montreat residents with an interest in the watersheds that drain through the town’s various neighborhoods are participating in monitoring aspects of the biology and chemistry in Flat Creek, having been trained by professionals in the aquatic sciences. Under the auspices of the Montreat Landcare Committee, two projects assessing overall water quality and bacteria levels started this spring.

One project is determining seasonal values for eight different characteristics of the water in Flat Creek. At five different locations along the stream, water samples are taken and then delivered to the Environmental Quality Institute in Black Mountain for analysis for parameters such as nutrients, turbidity and acidity.

The second project involves collecting water samples weekly at just one location, with analysis done for the level of fecal coliform bacteria that may be present by a laboratory operated by Mountain True in Asheville.

“Landcare and our community are fortunate to have partners at both the Environmental Quality Institute and at Mountain True who are lending their scientific expertise to our projects,” says the committee’s chair, Martha Campbell. “Also, having a member of the community who is a scientist, Dr. Bill Seaman, to conceive and organize the research is a key part of Landcare’s being able to focus on Flat Creek.”

Preliminary findings from both projects reveal that the waters of Flat Creek are quite healthy. These data will help stewardship of the overall watershed, such as in paying attention to management of stormwater runoff from heavy rain events and mitigating future damages such as those the community recently has seen to property and roads. Meanwhile, minimizing sediment in the waters will help maintain species such as the iconic Eastern brook trout, prized by naturalists and anglers alike.

See the new project page: Flat Creek Treasure.

Two Montreat citizen scientists, Jeff and son Oliver, practice filling water sample bottles at Flat Creek as part of a Landcare research project.

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