2009 YCC Season

2009 marked the fourth complete season of the AWWA Youth Conservation Corps program. The AWWA YCC crew was led by Crew Leaders Anthony Stanton and Sam Wilson, both returning for their third season with AWWA. In addition to our regular crew of Tim Campbell, Ryan Fabian, Burleigh Hastings, Tyler O’Donovan and Jordan Shepherd AWWA was pleased to partner with the Spaulding High School Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) program to offer part-time work to additional students: Zachary Brown, Cheyanne Boggs, Garrett Wheeler, and Jake Greeley. The JAG crew was supervised by Meghan Troddyn of Spaulding HS.

Despite the early weather challenges the crew completed 18 YCC projects including 57 erosion control measures which will prevent 10.2 tons of sediment and 8.4 lbs of phosphorus from entering the water. A number of these projects were the result of a request for assistance from property owners who were informed of erosion problems through AWWA’s watershed surveys.

Technical assistance designs were also created during the YCC season. 32 landowners received some sort of technical assistance, from telephone or email advice to a site specific design, and every lake in the region was represented. Valuable information was made available to interested parties who wished to address the erosion issues without the aid of the YCC. Recipients of technical assistance designs pledge to implement at least one BMP within one year of the landowner’s receipt of the information.

Click here to download the full 2009 YCC Season Report.

The 2009 YCC crew led a tour of some of the project sites which is available for viewing.