Description
Start Date-End Date: 04/21/2012-04/21/2012
Land Manager Office: Sand Creek Regional Greenway Partnership
Land Manager Contact: Katie Lampe
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Summary: This project is full!
Help make the urban Sand Creek Regional Greenway more sustainable for years to come.
Description:
STEWARDSHIP SITE
The Sand Creek Regional Greenway is a 14-mile public greenway that connects the High Line Canal in Aurora, Colorado with the South Platte River Greenway in Commerce City. Along the way, it passes through Denver and the Stapleton community. Runners, walkers, nature viewers, horseback riders, and leashed dogs enjoy the trail, which brings wilderness to the city of Denver and surrounding areas.
VOLUNTEER PROJECT - WHAT & WHY
Help make this urban trail more sustainable for years to come by addressing drainage problems that have caused washouts and erosion along in several areas along the trail. You'll have the opportunity to learn about and put into practice technical drainage strategies to prevent such problems. Volunteer work will rely heavily on tools and moving earth, and will involve turnpike construction and rock work.
Students in the Cairn Youth Program will lead a stewardship project at the same site for their final project of the 2011-2012 school year and as part of Global Youth Service Day. The students will lead their peers and families in the installation of two xeriscape gardens, in repairing the trailhead parking lot, andin fence installation.
PARTNERS
Sand Creek Regional Greenway Partnership (SCRGP)
Jose O'Shea's
OTHER FUN STUFF
Meals: light breakfast. Lunch has been generously donated by Jose O'Shea's Mexican Restaurant.
Latitude/Longitude: 39.76060104370117, -104.9032974243164
Additional Information:
Camping Available: No
Physical Difficulty: Moderate
High Altitude Project: No
Desired Number of Volunteers: 130
Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 70
Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 40
Total Volunteer Days: 110
Total Unique Volunteers: 110
Total Volunteer Hours: 453
Staff Hours: 22
Stipend Hours: 0
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1. What were the most significant areas of achievement on this project?
Was Cairn’s End-of-the-Year Project – and they successfully achieved getting ALL the work done on time while keep their volunteers happy any enthusiastic.
Fantastic partnership with the Sand Creek Regional Greenway
Two xeriscape gardens, 400 feet of trail maintained, 100 tons of gravel laid, 1 area weeded and tilled, and 27 fence posts installed and secured.
2. What areas need improvement from this project? More importantly, what constructive ideas do you have in order to improve these areas? What can VOC’s committees and staff do to implement these improvements?
Smoothest projects to date…minus one hiccup on missing tools!
3. What did you try new on this project that worked better than on prior projects?
Having multiple mini-projects going on at once; this will happen at HPEC too…so not too common for projects to have multiple things going on at once…wouldn’t say it worked better, but definitely accommodated people physical capability levels on many levels.
4. How much work was completed? If not 100%, when will it be completed by the agency? Did the agency provide everything they agreed to in the MOU?
100%!
5. How did the agency feel at the end of the project?
STOKED! And sunburned, and tired. J
6. Could the agency have better supported the team’s efforts? How?
Nope; ideal partner, lots of planning and site visits…was a great partnership.
7. Was this project a good volunteer and crew leader experience (i.e., did the volunteers enjoy themselves and did everything appear seamless)? How might we further enhance their experience?
Volunteers felt very accomplished and the number of youth/families on the project was a great turnout.
Cairn Crew Leaders should have spent more time on the tool safety talk; but due to late volunteer groups, I think it got lost in the mix…as people kept filtering in.
8. Any Crew Chef issues -- was there enough food and was it on time?
Becca Summer and the Cairn Crew Chef Team executed lunch; and Jose O’Sheas was only a little late on the order, but it all worked out!
9. Any Crew Leader issues -- sufficient number, consistency in work? Did any Crew Leader Trainees graduate?
Plenty of Crew Leaders (and Crew Leader Teams) from Cairn; again, tool talk should have been more robust, but logistical difficulties made it a bit challenging for them with late volunteer groups filtering in.
Glenn Ward and John Scott manned the Trail Maintenance project, and did a great job…we had a hiccup with missing trail tools – NCCC neglected to load them.
Brandon Diaz and Mentor Jonathan Staats ran back to the Ops Center to grab necessary tools and the Trail portion of the project was able to start only a few minutes late.
10. TA issues? Were construction notes clear and expectations explained to everyone? Were the notes provided at orientation? Were the TAs readily accessible to CLs and Project Team members?
Nope; much expertise and oversight for all aspects of the project.
11. TM issues? Did you have sufficient help with the tools? Will you have any Project Team members helping at the next tool maintenance?
Glenn Ward took the lead on this; and was a great help and teacher/mentor for me (Emily Fenwick) being that this was my first Public VOC Project over 100 volunteers with 4 differeny project components going on!
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