Join Us for Morrisville Creek Week 2024 and the Stormwater Runoff 5K!

It's time for Creek Week 2024! Each year, the Town participates in the Clean Water Education Partnership's (CWEP) regional Creek Week to increase awareness of the ecological and environmental importance of clean water. This week-long event includes several community stream cleans, stormwater drain-marking events, educational booths at our community centers, and  interactive library programs for K-5 children.

This year, Creek Week will also include a Stormwater Runoff 5K at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 17, at Cedar Fork District Park (228 Aviation Parkway), to help educate the public and focus attention on stormwater issues, especially the importance to keeping stormwater clean.

The race will begin at 8:30 a.m. and same-day registration will open at 7:15 a.m. The entry fee is $25, up to and including February 14, and increasing to $35 thereafter up to and including race day. A t-shirt is included with the entry fee, guaranteed to all entered by Feb. 14.  After that date, shirts will be distributed on as available on a first-come-first-served basis.

Thanks to  our friends at Fleet Feet, the top 3 male and female finishers will receive a $25 gift card!

Creek Week 2024 Event Schedule

Follow Town of Morrisville Stormwater on Facebook and @TOMStormwater on X and like and share their posts to spread the word about Creek Week. All week-long Morrisville's stormwater team will be posting about Creek Week to help educate our community about stormwater topics.

What is Creek Week?

With the support of the North Carolina Clean Water Education Partnership (NC CWEP)  and the Town of Morrisville's Stormwater Division, the Town of Morrisville will once again celebrate NC CWEP’s Regional Creek Week program all week long with fun, informative activities that will help to educate our community about reducing stormwater pollution and the importance of keeping our waterways clear and clean.

Morrisville's 2024 Creek Week, hosted in conjunction with the NC CWEP Regional Creek Week, was a huge success, so we are happy to work as partners with them once again under the shared theme - Water Connects Us.

Events for the week will include volunteer stream cleans and litter pickups by Morrisville stream stewardship groups, educational booths at community centers and the Western Wake Farmers' Market, installation of markers on stormwater drains at various locations around Town - all hosted by the Town of Morrisville Stormwater Division.

Why Creek Week? 

 
Map of the Upper Crabtree Creek Watershed

We celebrate Creek Week because it's critical that we work to educate our community of the importance of reducing and eliminating avoidable stormwater pollution that will negatively impact our waterways and overall environment.

Our largest watershed, the Upper Crabtree Creek Watershed, lies in Durham and Wake Counties, on the edge of the Neuse River Basin and includes most of Morrisville and Cary, and stretches to western Raleigh and southern Durham. Within this watershed are many of the local waterways we all pass by on the daily, like Lake Crabtree, areas of Brier Creek, and hundreds of small lakes, rivers and tributaries.

Morrisville and all of the Research Triangle cities and towns are Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems, or MS4 communities. This means our stormwater flows in a separate set of pipes from our sanitary sewers. But while sanitary sewers flow through pipes to a treatment facility, the stormwater pipes flow DIRECTLY to our waterways - taking any and all pollutants with it. 

Therefore, to keep stormwater clean, nothing but rain should go down the stormwater drains.

It takes all of us working together to reduce and eliminate stormwater pollution, and there are small changes you can make today that can actually make a large difference for our waterways. From picking up after your pets to planting native plants and trees that will reduce sediment erosion, there's tons of small ways you can keep our stormwater clean.

Click below for our complete list of stormwater tips and make your impact on our community and waterways today!

Creek Week 2023 Clean Up and Engagement Statistics

If you ever observe anything other than rain flowing into a storm drain, please report it to the Town of Morrisville Stormwater Division by calling 919-463-7025 or emailing stormwater@morrisvillenc.gov.