Rebecca Fedewa, Executive Director
Email: rfedewa@flintriver.org

Jack Minore, Board Chair
Email: jacksonmin@aol.com

Edythe Westhoff, Office Manager
Email: ewesthoff@flintriver.org

Sue Lossing, Education/Outreach Coordinator
Email: slossing@flintriver.org

Flint River Watershed Coalition
432 North Saginaw Street, Suite 1001
Flint, Michigan 48502

Telephone: (810) 767-6490
Fax: (810) 767-2149

Lapeer County Committee of the Flint River Watershed Coalition

Diane Peplinski, Co-Chair e-mail: dianeskimay@yahoo.com telephone:810-688-3347
Brad Hill, Co-Chair
Mary Brown (From the USDA Soil Conservation Office in Lapeer) secretary

Meetings are held the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm at the Historic Court House in downtown Lapeer. New Members Welcomed! The Lapeer County Committee Minutes are listed with other committee meeting minutes

Project areas:

Benthic Monitoring - Volunteers needed

River Cleanup: Peter McCreedy is the project leader.  Peter is a teacher at Chatfield Schools.  He has an organized program to clean and dispose of trash in the river and streams in Lapeer County. Volunteers needed.

Obstruction removal/Habitat Restoration:  Project Leader Joe Leonardi (810-245-1250).  Joe is a Fisheries Management Biologist with the Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources.  He orginizes teams to remove log jams from the river in an environmentaly sound way, so that there is habitat for fish and life in the river.  Volunteers needed. 

Education/Outreach:  Project Leader Diane Peplinski (810-688-3344) has been working with Brent Nickola from the University of Michigan-Flint, Center for Applied Environmental Research (CAER) on a watershed management plan for the South Branch of the Flint River.   

For more information contact:

Ken Elwert (Lapeer Co. Parks and Recrecration) home-810-245-6653, work- 810-667-0304

Marian Listwak 810-688-3192