SILVER BOW CREEK HEADWATERS PARK

Restore Our Creek Coalition The Restore Our Creek Coalition grew out of the efforts of many groups in Butte who have worked over the past years to ensure that various Superfund-related issues, involved active public engagement in the decision-making process. In 2015 members of theses groups coalesced into a single entity, the Restore Our Creek Coalition. As a Coalition we are able to speak for a much broader range of community members, and to garner their support of the group’s shared vision: a proper cleanup and robust restoration of the Corridor.

Restore Our Creek Coalition Vision Statement Clean the Silver Bow Creek Corridor to restore Silver Bow Creek and create a greenway for public enjoyment. To accomplish this requires the removal of the Parrot Tailings, Northside Tailings and Diggings East. Removal of the tailings and restoration of the creek will safeguard protection of Superfund cleanup actions downstream to Missoula and the Columbia River Basin.

Introduction The Silver Bow Creek Corridor offers the Consent Decree negotiators an unparalleled opportunity to work together with the public to create a truly unique destination in Butte. The Silver Bow Creek Headwaters Park proposal is grounded in the Restore Our Creek Coalition’s shared values of transparency and open collaboration. Successful restoration of the Silver Bow Creek Corridor will continue with ongoing public dialogue and community engagement process.

Conceptual Masterplan Civic Center Explain the gradients adjacent to the creek – look up in the plan. Chamber

Community Supporters CITIZENS FOR LABOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SOUTHWESTEN MONTANA CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL CITIZENS FOR LABOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Chief Seattle: “We Do Not Inherit the Earth from Our Ancestors; We Borrow It from Our Children”