Mansfield Storm Water Management

Despite a week of excessive heat and humidity, the 20th Annual Operation S.O.S. (Save Our Streams), had brave volunteers who joined us on Saturday.

Three of those were members of the Rotary Club of Mansfield, who thanks to Dave Crawford who 19 years ago was the special projects coordinator for the Rotary, called and said, we wish to make this one of our projects. So, for 19 years, members of the Rotary have always had volunteers join us.

Special Thanks to those who volunteered their time on a hot muggy Saturday are Melanie Seaman, Dave Crawford, Mike Daily and Maura Teynor.

(and i actually had to tell them after over an hour, it's time to stop, as it's already 86 degrees and it's only 10 a.m.).

We are so very fortunate with the countless volunteers over the years!

Thank you to our volunteers
The cleaning up of litter and debris does not just beautify our downtown, but also keeps the litter from entering our storm drains and emptying into our stream.

Happy Arbor Day!
Did you know that planting trees is one of the best practices for stormwater management?

Join us in this celebration and plant a tree when you are able!

April 1st, 2024...what a great day and I'm not fooling anyone as today marks the beginning of the 28th Anniversary Earth Stewardship Celebration

Starting today and running through August 1st - the Earth Stewardship Steering Committee invites residents, businesses, churches, schools, non profits, neighborhoods, government entities to join us in Planting Pride in Richland County and conduct a project. What does that mean???
Earth Stewardship participants take before and after photos of their project and submit them by August 4th. Projects ideas: Litter clean up, Beautification, graffiti removal, recycling drive, rain barrel, pollinator gardens, etc.

and the best part - you get to choose the date and location of the project. (and by you choosing the date, if it rains on your first scheduled date, you have time to reschedule it)

Projects are then "judged" by a panel of judges and awards are given to the top 3 places in each category which include: Business, Government, Neighborhood, School, Church/non profit organization

Star Awards will be chosen for each village and city in Richland County that registers a project.

and all volunteers will be entered into a drawing for prizes at our awards ceremony in September.

Over the past 27 years, we have had over 54,000 residents join us in Planting Pride in Richland County. Join your friends and let's make the 28th Anniversary Earth Stewardship Celebration the greatest one to date.

For ideas of projects from previous years, check out our photo albums on the Earth Stewardship Celebration FB page.

Registration is easy - simply go to this link and register your project today. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13M1LYCuqxPaIBJ2U8gh3XANhRNGSmMNy9Mteelcc-Bc/edit

28th Anniversary Earth Stewardship Celebration Join us in celebrating 28 years of Planting Pride in our Community. The Earth Stewardship Celebration is open to all residents in the Mansfield/Richland County area. You get to choose the location, date and type of project you wish to conduct. (If conducting a litter clean up, bags, gloves and dispo...

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Our theme this year....Pollution Prevention. Get ready for tips and tricks and don't forget, if you have a concern or need to report an Environmental Complaint, we now have a great site to report concerns in Mansfield.

You can even upload photos of the site, and it will provide us the location of where you see the concern.

https://ci.mansfield.oh.us/public-works-departments/engineering-department/

Just click on Submit an Environmental Complaint, and it will walk you through the steps.

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Many thanks to all for the wonderful birthday wishes. I have so enjoyed working with so many of you over the years - you have been such an integral part of my life. Thanks

Please share and like this page to stay up to date on the wonderful happenings in our city.

Mayor Jodie Perry - City of Mansfield, Ohio Jodie Perry took office on January 1, 2024 as the 71st Mayor of Mansfield, Ohio.

Pleased to share a small summary of the City of Mansfield's Shade Tree Commission 2023 year end report.

Our thanks to our Commission members, volunteers and businesses who helped make this year truly one of the best and looking forward to 2024 projects and partnerships.

Even though the Earth Stewardship Celebration for 2023 is over - Deb once again completed a wonderful service project demonstrating that planting pride is all year long. These young women are instrumental in helping keep our streams free of liter and debris by their efforts.

Join Deb and these young women in completing a project in our community, and it's not too early to begin planning a special project for next years 28th Anniversary Earth Stewardship Celebration

Another great educational session hosted by members of the Shade Tree Commission.

Our sincere thanks to our Shade Tree Commission members, Josh Maurer, Michael Henry, Juli Parsons who volunteer their time to serve on the Commission and Councilman Aureilo Diaz who also serves on the Commission. And thank you to Councilman Falquette, who also took time out of his busy schedule to join us this evening.

Mansfield Shade Tree Commission to host Oct. 5 public meeting MANSFIELD — The City of Mansfield Shade Tree Commission will host an educational public meeting on Thursday, Oct. 5. This event will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the North […]

Congrats to our award winners and our gratitude for the local businesses who sponsored the awards.

A huge shout out to our sponsors, partners, Stewards & Friends:
Apple Hill Orchards
K.E. McCartney & Associates
Mechanics Bank
Richland Area Chamber & Economic Development
Richland County Regional Solid Waste Management Authority
Alta Florist & Greenhouse
Buckeye Imagination Museum
Athena Greek Restaurant
O.S.U. Extension
Richland Soil & Water Conservation District

and Mid Ohio Trophy for the beautiful Awards!

Discovery student wins Earth Stewardship awards Maverick Aldstadt, a first grader at Discovery School, inspired a schoolwide tree planting project in May.

The Earth Stewardship Steering Committee is pleased to announce that starting today , August 30th at 4:00 p.m. voting for the People's Choice Award for the Take Pride Earth Stewardship Contest begins.

How do you cast your vote?
First go to our Photo Albums: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067326255561&sk=photos_albums

Each album for this year's participants begings with the name 2023 Take Pride Contest.

Make sure to look at the great projects and descriptions.

After you have made your decision on which project should be this year's People Choice Award winner - all you have to do is "like" the Album and your vote has been cast.

Voting begins at 4:00 p.m. and will end on Wednesday, September 6th at 4:00 p.m.

Then make sure to mark you calendar and join us downtown at the Gazebo for the awards ceremony where all Award Winners and the People's Choice Award will be presented.

Good luck in making your decision because all of these projects throughout Richland County and the many volunteers who participated are truly deserving of the award.

Earth Stewardship Celebration The Earth Stewardship Celebration is an Annual Celebration to celebrate Earth Day and to Plant Pride

A huge Shout Out to Troop #152 who planted 30 trees at Clearfork Reservoir this past Saturday.

Engineering Department | City of Mansfield The Engineering Department oversees the development and maintenance of the city's infrastructure.

Have you ever had a concern regarding the environment in Mansfield but wasn’t sure which department to contact?

Well, we have great news to help residents report an Environmental Complaint and it’s at your fingertips and can be filled out and sent with your phone.

The City of Mansfield Engineering Department has developed a great new tool to assist our residents in reporting environmental concerns/complaints regarding Air, Land, Water (lakes, streams, etc.) and drinking water.

The link we are sharing will take you directly to a form to fill out to report an Environmental Complaint. It is very simple to fill out, and you can even attach a photo(s) of what you see/or are concerned about. Your complaint will be sent to the appropriate department so they may begin an investigation to your complaint.

So what do you mean by an Environmental Complaint? The following represent just a couple of examples:

• You’re taking the dog for a walk and notice suds in the street
• You have a neighbor or you may even be visiting a business who is having work completed and you notice that one of the contractors poured something into a catch basin and it didn’t look like water
• Even worse, you see and smell sewer discharge into a stream or coming from someone’s home
• You see a construction site and a lot of dirt/sediment on the road from the site tracking all along the streets.

If you don’t see your specific concern in the drop down list, you can always choose “other” and the describe your complaint.

By clicking on the link – you can immediately submit your complaint and it will be received immediately by the department responsible for investigating your complaint.

You have the option to leave your complaint with your name so we may follow up with you or if needed ask some additional questions to aid in our investigation, or if you wish to make your report anonymously, you may do so as well.

Feel free to click on this link now, to get familiar with it, and make sure to bookmark it for easy reference. https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9ab93d4bedce4bdc8e5e9c4b89860d5c/

And if you don’t want to bookmark this link now, you can always go to the City of Mansfield’s Website and you will find the link by visiting the Engineering Department’s webpage at: https://ci.mansfield.oh.us/public-works-departments/engineering-department/

Questions, feel free to contact Kim Hildreth, Project Planner at [email protected]

And lastly, make sure to share this information with your friends and neighbors.

Engineering Department | City of Mansfield The Engineering Department oversees the development and maintenance of the city's infrastructure.

The Shade Tree Commission continues in its ongoing effort to provide education to our community with our presentation to Malabar Intermediate School 4th grade students.

Students also learned how important trees are to maintaining storm water in urban settings.

We are just a few days away from the first Final Friday Concert of the summer! We’ve got another great lineup this year starting with our May show featuring Ari, C***E, and S’yvelt. Join us here at the The Brickyard this Friday, May 26, as we kick off the season!

See you downtown! 😁

Event page: https://facebook.com/events/s/may-final-friday-concert-serie/1142946979736293/?mibextid=RQdjqZ

What an absolutely wonderful evening for our 27th Annual Operation Clean Sweep.

On behalf of DMI and the City of Mansfield, who host this annual event, our sincere thank you to these wonderful volunteers who got down and dirty to help make our downtown truly shine.

And i would be remiss if i didn't share, that Nelson Shogren, who is in the photo below with his wife Stana, has been a participant for 25 of those 27 years.

Happy Arbor Day!
Join the Shade Tree Commission with your own tree planting! and if you wish to plant white pines, we have a limited supply of white pine tree seedlings for anyone wanting to make this an Earth Stewardship Celebration project.

The Earth Stewardship Steering Committee is please to announce the 27th Anniversary Earth Stewardship Celebration for 2023. As a past participant, we sincerely hope you will consider joining us again this year.

Attached you will find the guidelines, registration form and the announcement of our new Star Award Program.

The Earth Stewardship Celebration invites area groups, organizations, businesses churches, civic groups, non-profits, schools and residents throughout all of Richland County to register to participant by planning a litter clean up, tree planting, beautification project, rain garden, community garden and the list goes on.

As in the past, anyone conducting a litter clean up with be provided with collection bags, gloves and disposal of the litter collected. And great news for those conducting a beautification project/community garden, rain garden – Free Compost will be available for those who register thanks to the generosity of the Richland County Solid Waste District.

The Earth Stewardship Celebration welcomes any project which is completed between April 1st- August 2nd. This extended timeline permits for you to not worry about inclement weather affecting your project as you have time to reschedule. And for those who conduct a beautification project, rain garden, etc., - the extended timeline permits our judges to see how beautiful those plants are blooming (and producing if a community food garden).

The new “Star Award” program is designed to recognize an outstanding project in every City and Village in Richland County who registers to participate. What that means is that for example if you have a business in more than one location, each of your branches can register their project.

And with your registration, not only will your project have the opportunity to win an award, but every volunteer will be entered into a drawing for prizes at our awards ceremony to be held in September.

Fill out the attached registration form and email back, or you may register online here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pTyCUzZXl4Etla3oY69PykIfGA-cTxB2m0W7G5aFvRU/edit

Remember you have from April 1 – August 1st to register and complete your project.

We thank you for your past participation and hope you join us as we continue to Plant Pride in all of Richland County.

Voting for the People's Choice Awards in just 3 hours for the 11th Annual Take Pride Contest

Cast your vote by 12 noon - the projects can be found https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067326255561&sk=photos_albums

Just "like" the album you think is this years' People Choice Award winner (we think they all are, but we can only choose one).

Earth Stewardship Celebration The Earth Stewardship Celebration is an Annual Celebration to celebrate Earth Day and to Plant Pride

Friendly reminder to all.. today is the deadline to submit your registration to participate in the 2th Anniversary Earth Stewardship Celebration.
Photos are due by Friday, August 8th so we have time to get all the projects in Mansfield/Richland County a chance to be viewed and voted on by our judges, and the last week in August, you'll have a chance to vote on the People's Choice Award.

All volunteers will be entered into a drawing for prizes. We have great weather for this final week, so join us today and Plant Pride in Mansfield/Richland County

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jGIpmCB9NK4YoTc7KQk7DuFU6m_teLwFJrC3V-CErz8/edit

26th Anniversary Earth Stewardship Celebration Join us in celebrating 26 years of Planting Pride in our Community. The Earth Stewardship Celebration is open to all residents in the Mansfield/Richland County area. You get to choose the location, date and type of project you wish to conduct. (If conducting a litter clean up, bags, gloves and dispo...

Our thanks to the volunteers who participated in Operation S.O.S. (Save Our Streams on Saturday.

You are what make Mansfield/Richland County a great place to live.

What a great start to the morning. My thanks to Tony Mitchell & Richelle Kemper for having me join them to talk about Saturday's stream clean up.
Always a pleasure hanging out with these two, and so very appreciative of their ongoing support.

Great article why trees are good for stormwater management in our community

Trees for Stormwater Management It is often said that one of the best things you can do to manage stormwater is to plant a tree. When it rains on natural areas, such as forests or other...