How to Get Involved
Visit our Superfund page to learn about how you can get involved in voicing your opintion about the Duwamish Superfund cleanup alternatives for the entire 5.5 mile Lower Duwamish River. We need your voice and your ideas at the table!
To achieve our goals we need your voice, your involvement, and your ideas. Get started today!
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Public Involvement in Superfund
DRCC/TAG has negotiated an enhanced public involvement agreement with the EPA, which allows us to be at the table reviewing documents and commenting on the cleanup process much earlier than is typically required at other Superfund sites.
To learn more about how you can also provide public comments and feedback for EPA and the responsible parties, please view the Superfund page on our web site.
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Public Boat and Kayak Tours
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DRCC/TAG also offers Presentations and Field Visits
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Volunteer
Would you like to support DRCC/TAG with your time?
- volunteer at the DRCC/TAG booth or table at an upcoming event (training and information provided)
- help us take flyers or posters around to area businesses to promote our events
- help us organize and produce community events, such as Duwamish Alive, the Duwamish River Festival, or our popular tours.
- organize a group of friends, family, or co-workers to 'adopt' a Duwamish shoreline area to regularly remove trash or invasive plants
- train to become our volunteer-coordinator
- train to become our office assitant/book-keeper
- If you have other ideas for how get involved, please let us know!
- Contact DRCC/TAG by phone at 206-954-0218 / email
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Service Learning
DRCC/TAG builds its capacity through students' service learning projects. Rather than a typical internship, DRCC/TAG offers hands-on community-based learning opportunities that take your education to the next level. Contact DRCC/TAG to see how you can get involved.
- Spring 2010 UW College of the Built Environment Masters Studio, focusing on 'activating' the Duwamish Vision, through pairing students with community stakeholders to create design concept drawings for future Duwamish projects.
- Our American Generation, is a youth-run think tank that facilitates research and offers policy proposals concerning social justice issues crucial to the future of our country. Click here to read their Environmental Justice issue, featuring Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition, Community Coalition for Environmental Justice, and the Duwamish Tribe.
- University of Washington's Community Environment and Planning program was instrumental to assist DRCC/TAG with the 2008-2009 Green-Duwamish Watershed map and Duwamish Vision project. Rose Thornton was the design coordinator for the Duwamish Vision maps.
DRCC/TAG's partnership with CEP continues in 2010 with students working on a variety of projects to 'activate the Duwamish Vision.'
- Seattle University's Religion and Ecology class service learning projects:
- Tyler Locher, a serior at Big Picture High School produced a brochure about Duwamish River Ospreys and environmental health.
- Brandusa Bularca's 2009 UW Masters in Architecture project, "Manufacturing Fields: Man-Making and Re-making of Seattle Metropolitain Industries," focusing on the Duwamish River and Harbor Island eco-industrial design. (link to free download or pay for paperback book.)
- University of Oregon's 2009 Landscape and Landscape Architecture program Urban Design Program.
- Cari Simson, who is now DRCC/TAG's Program Manager, began working with DRCC/TAG in 2005 while she was getting her Masters at Antioch University - Seattle, and helped host a community 'visioning' workshop with the Georgetown neighborhood in March of 2005. Read her thesis, "Habitat Restoration and the Cultivation of Sustainable Habits," on Duwamish River community participatory design and public involvement.
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In-Kind Contributions
In-Kind contributions are very appreciated! Some of the businesses who currently support DRCC/TAG through in-kind donations: Seattle Aquarium Society, Salish Seas, Environmental Coalition of South Seattle, Field Roast Grain Meat Company, CleanScapes, Metropolitan Market, Trader Joes, Alki Kayak Tours, Global Diving and Salvage, REI, and many others.
To learn more, please contact DRCC/TAG at 206-954-0218 / email
DRCC/TAG is in need of the following items:
- a 10x10 pop-up canopy in good working condition, for our outdoor events.
- gift certificates/gift cards to use as raffle prizes at public events
- prepared food or snacks/beverages for our meetings and workshops
- a single or double kayak to add to our fleet
- screen printing
- ability to test water and soil samples through a certified lab
- printing/copying, or graphic design
- a working laptop, 3-year old or less (Mac or PC) to run email, Office programs, and InDesign
If you have other ideas about how YOU can get involved, please contact DRCC/TAG at 206-954-0218 / email
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