Clear the litter from Jolly Giant Creek's banks where it crosses Arcata.

Jolly Giant Creek runs from the Community Forest straight through Arcata's neighborhoods to Humboldt Bay, and every culvert mouth and open bank collects bottles, wrappers, and shopping-cart trash on the way. What the creek carries, the bay receives. A monthly bank sweep along the open reaches keeps the little creek doing its job clean.

Where

Open creek reaches near K Street and Samoa Boulevard, Arcata, CA 95521 · Open the map

Pay

$180 proposed

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Proof

Before/after photos with bag tally

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Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-19

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Walk the assigned open reach and photograph the littered spots from the bank.
2. Collect litter from the dry banks and culvert mouths with a grabber and gloves, staying out of the water.
3. Bag and tally items, separating recyclables.
4. Note and photograph any pipe discharging colored or smelly flow for a report to the city.
5. Photograph the cleared reach and filled bags with the tally.

What counts as done

• Before photos of littered bank with GPS and date
• After photos of the cleared reach
• Bag count and item tally
• Photo of any suspect discharge reported

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Watershed Health. A watershed is everything the land pours into a stream, and the stream keeps the record. The EPA's bioassessment method reads that record through the small creatures living in the gravel: mayflies and caddisflies mean clean water, only worms and midges mean trouble. Mastery looks like a person who can wade one riffle with a net and tell you how the whole valley is doing. That skill is built sample by sample. This packet is one of them: one site, one careful count, one entry in the long record of a stream.