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Trail Alignment Study - TLCI Grant awarded
FOBC and project partners were awarded funding for a feasibility study to connect the Cleveland Metroparks Brookside and Big Creek Reservations with a trail alignment through the City of Brooklyn. FOBC, Cleveland Metroparks, and the cities of Cleveland and Parma join the City of Brooklyn as co-sponsors for the $75,000 study ($60,000 grant with a $15,000 local match) funded by the federal Transportation for Livable Communities Initiative (TLCI) grant program.
The Big Creek Greenway Trail Alignment and Neighborhood Connector Plan will examine potential linkages with surrounding neighborhoods as well as Brooklyn municipal/office/retail areas. The all purpose trail network will provide a safe alternative mode of transportation for its users and identify opportunities for interpretive exhibits and ecological restoration.
Watershed Management Plan - CMAG Grant awarded
Big Creek watershed communities of Brooklyn, Parma, Parma Heights, Brook Park, and the southwest wards of Cleveland partner with FOBC and the Cuyahoga River Remedial Action Plan (RAP) to develop a comprehensive community plan for the Big Creek Watershed. The RAP was awarded a $20,000 (with 50% local match) Ohio Coastal Management Assistance Grant to develop the first phase of a Watershed Management Plan—data collection and analysis of information for Watershed Inventory, Assessment and Problem Definition.
- Coastal Management Assistance Grants award news release: www.ohiodnr.com/news/may07/0522coastalgrants.htm
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Big Creek is the third largest tributary of the lower Cuyahoga River,
flowing 12 miles before joining the Cuyahoga at a point 7.4 miles
above the mouth of the river where it empties into Lake Erie in Cleveland.
The watershed drains 39 square miles from 7 municipalities
(Cleveland, Brooklyn, Linndale, Parma, Parma Heights,
Brook Park, and North Royalton).
It is the most severely urbanized watershed (52% impervious).
Fortunately, it also has one of the strongest stewardship groups in the
Cuyahoga River watershed - Friends of Big Creek.
Learn more about Big Creek on the Friends of Big Creek website.
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