About the Community Projects
Over the years, these projects have created more than 6 rain gardens, 8 bioswales, 2 outdoor classrooms, and 1 stormwater managing walkway, all of which include hundreds of native plantings.
Registration for the Service Project is free and open to all WEFTEC attendees and their guests. Volunteers will receive transportation to and from the site, a T-shirt, lunch, and a WEF Community Service Project ribbon for their WEFTEC badge.
The WEF Students and Young Professionals Committee (SYPC) organizes the WEF Community Service Project each year. Committee volunteers help design, market, and raise funds and materials for the project. This project provides a great opportunity for WEFTEC attendees to give back to our host city.
If you are interested in helping plan the 2025 project, please contact the 2025 Service Project Chair: Brandon Friedland.
2023 – Today’s Water Students, Tomorrow’s Water Leaders
2022 – St. Augustine High Scool
Titled Marching to a Greener St. Augustine, this project took place at St. Augustine High School in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans. The project transformed the school’s entryway into a beautiful, welcoming, and green space.
2021 – 12th Street Beach on Northerly Island
On Saturday, October 16, 2021, the WEF Students and Young Professionals Committee organized and completed the 13th Annual WEFTEC Community Service Project, Life Is Better By the Lake. The project took place in Chicago.
2019 – Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy
For the 12th annual Community Service Project, a large group of volunteers spent their day installing permeable pavers, a rain garden, and other green infrastructure elements at the Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy in Chicago.
2018 – Treme Community Center
Volunteers at this event transformed a 14,000-square-foot planter box into a bioswale that will capture, detain, and treat thousands of gallons of stormwater runoff and also created a green infrastructure graphic to educate the community about the importance of water.
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