Past Creek Weeks and Impact
Most Recent: Creek Week 2025
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The Data is In! Creek Week 2025 Made a Big Impact
We are excited to share the incredible success of the 12th Annual Creek Week Cleanup! Over nine days, eight communities across the Fountain Creek Watershed came together to make a lasting impact. This year’s cleanup included crews from Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Fountain, Manitou Springs, Green Mountain Falls, Palmer Lake, Monument, and Woodland Park.
Here’s what we accomplished together:
- 70 Crews
- Over a 1,500 Volunteers
- Nearly 16.5 Tons of Trash Removed—over 40,000 pounds!
Thank you to all of the volunteers, sponsors, and community members who helped make Creek Week 2024 a success! Together, we’re making a cleaner, healthier watershed for all.
For a presentation summarizing Creek Week results, please click Creek Week 2025.
Thank you to all our Creek Week Cleanup Volunteers, Crew Leaders and Crews, Partners, Sponsors, and Supporters!
Creek Week Impacts: 2014 - 2024
The Creek Week Cleanup began in 2014 as a way to encourage citizens to help remove litter and debris from our land and waters, raise awareness of watershed health, and to foster a sense of community. Creek Week has grown into Colorado’s largest watershed-wide cleanup.
Together, we have removed over 188.8 tons of litter and debris over the last 12 years.
This incredible accomplishment couldn't have been done without the hard work and dedication of the nearly 24,000+ people who have volunteered on cleanup crews.
From cleanups to forest health projects, the District supports nearly 100 different events during these 9 days in the following communities:
– City of Colorado Springs
– City of Green Mountain Falls
– City of Fountain
– City of Manitou Springs
– City of Monument
– City of Palmer Lake
– City of Pueblo
– City of Woodland Park
– City of Trinidad
– Pueblo County
– El Paso County
Participants include individuals, businesses, neighborhood organizations, scout groups, churches, school groups, Friends of parks groups, colleges, cities, and towns. Don’t see your community listed? Contact us to learn how to participate.
Creek Week Summary Reports
Creek Week 2025 Summary Report
Creek Week 2024 Summary Report
Creek Week 2023 Summary Report
Creek Week 2022 Summary Report
Creek Week 2021 Summary Report
Please contact the District if you have difficulty with document accessibility or if would like to see archived Creek Week Summary Reports.
Creek Week Testimonials
“Creek Week not only connects the community with our local waterways; it elevates very relevant regional conversations about the health of these waterways and the need to protect the regional watershed.” - Christine Lowenberg, Executive Director of The Greenway Fund
“My favorite thing about Creek Week is witnessing people make a difference in their community. Volunteering with students passionate about serving others by picking up their trash is a truly humbling and rewarding experience. It gives me a great sense of pride knowing that cleaning one waterway can make communities in Colorado Springs, along the Colorado and Arkansas Rivers, and off the Gulf of Mexico more beautiful.” - Alex Greanias, UCCS student and 4x volunteer for Creek Week
“Creek Week is an annual event that allows people of all ages to come together to help clean and beautify our streams. People care – that makes the difference. Let’s all get involved, however we can, to make our waterways a treasure to be enjoyed by generations to come.” - Larry Small, Past Executive Director of the Fountain Creek Watershed, Flood Control & Greenway District