Clear litter from the Little Chico Creek greenway near downtown Chico.

Little Chico Creek runs right through downtown Chico and its greenway trail collects wind-blown trash and homeless-encampment debris that washes toward Big Chico Creek and eventually the Sacramento River watershed during winter storms. A hand litter sweep keeps that load out of the water before the rains push it downstream.

Where

Little Chico Creek Greenway near Downtown Chico, CA 95928 · Open the map

Pay

$140 proposed

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Proof

Photo of cleared stretch, bag count logged

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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 a defined 0.25-mile stretch of the creek trail with gloves and a trash grabber.
2. Bag litter separately from any recyclable material.
3. Avoid entering the water itself: work from the bank and trail only.
4. Note and photograph, but do not move, anything that looks like a personal encampment item.
5. Weigh or estimate the total bags collected.
6. Photograph the cleared stretch and the bagged total.

What counts as done

• Before/after photo of the stretch
• Bag count photo
• GPS pin of stretch cleaned

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.