Keep Austin Beautiful engages citizens in making a lasting commitment to protect our waterways by adopting a creek segment for a minimum of two years.

Adopters conduct at least four restoration projects per year to improve water quality, stabilize creek banks, and restore habitats along waterways.

Adopt-a-Creek events can focus on litter abatement, invasive species control, native grass and wildflower seeding, tree planting, and stormwater management.

APPLY TO ADOPT-A-CREEK
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For more information, please contact our Adopt-a-Creek Coordinator, Edward Pung.

When you Adopt-a-Creek you are making a commitment to:

  • “Adopt” a segment of an Austin creek for at least 2 years
  • Conduct at least 4 restoration events per year
  • Ensure the safety of those participating in your events
  • Report volunteer information and project details
  • Restore creek habitat through invasive species removal, native plantings, and erosion control

Benefits of Becoming an Adopt-a-Creek Group

  • An Adopt-a-Creek certificate and tile
  • Guidance with planning your events
  • Access to tools, native plants, and seeds
  • Access to Keep Austin Beautiful and Watershed Protection Department staff to provide technical insight and advice
  • Cleanup supplies and trash collection
  • Adopt-a-Creek giveaways for your group
  • Storm drain marking kits
  • Monitoring kits for your group to track the progress of your creek segment
  • Recognition on the Keep Austin Beautiful website

Adopted Creeks
Our map of adopted creeks is undergoing updates. Check back soon!

If you are interested in adopting a creek segment, please fill out this form.

Partner

Sponsors

Adopters

Allandale Neighborhood Association: Parks & Greenspaces Committee

Amigos de Parque Zaragoza

TX CAC American Water Works Association

AMD

ARLA Earth

American Society of Civil Engineers – Austin Branch

Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders (NJHS)

Austin Chinese American Network

Austin Families in Nature

Austin Standup Paddleboarders

Austin Youth Riverwatch

Bailey Family

Bouldin Creek Neighborhood Association

Boy Scout Troop 49

Boys & Girls Club of the Austin Area

Braun Intertec Corporation

Brooksource

Bull Creek Foundation

CAIS

Chambord Community

Colorado River Alliance

Cushing Terrell Architects and Engineers

Ecology Action of Texas

Engineers without Borders

Fairview Neighborhood

Freese and Nichols

Friends and Lovers of Willowbrook Reach (FLWR)

Friends of Boggy Creek – Rosewood Glen Oaks Neighborhood Association

Friends of Copperfield Nature Trails

Friends of East Bouldin Creek

Friends of Eleanor Gardens

Friends of Harris Branch

Friends of McKinney Falls State Park

Friends of Quail Valley Spring

Friends of South Zilker Park

Generation SERVE

Halff Community Initiative

Hancock Neighborhood Association

Heritage Hills – Woodbridge NA

Hofmann Lab, UT Austin

Innovative Water Solutions

Keep Walnut Creek Wild

Kiwanis Club of Silicon Hills

Lumber Society

Make Austin Clean

McKinley Heights Neighborhood Association

Moffitt

North Loop Neighborhood Association

Osgiliath

Ovivo Water Treatment Solutions

Pack Fourteen Cub Scouts

Pease Park Conservancy

Phi Kappa Sigma

REI

REI – Downtown Austin

Sathya Sai Center of Austin

Sierra Club of Austin

Silverton Creek Partners

Sips ATX

South Austin Barefoot Gardeners

South East Austin Trails and Greenways Alliance (SEATAG)

Southwood Neighborhood Association

St. Edwards University – Ragsdale Center

STEMSign LLC

Tau Beta Pi

Texas Bluebonnets

Texas FLO

Texas Fly Fishers

The Ayers Family

The Williamson Family

Tzu Chi Collegiate Association

US Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla – Austin

US Geological Survey

UT Undergraduate Geography Society

We Can Make It If We Try

Westminster Presbyterian Church

Wilshirewood Neighborhood Association