Volunteer

Volunteer Program Overview

Check our featured volunteer activity, Streamside Snapshot.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services engages over 4,000 volunteers each year to help improve and protect local streams and lakes! We hope you will join us!

We have a variety of volunteer activities that can accommodate all ages, abilities and interests. Parents like our activities for teaching young children to care about the environment. High school and college students like our activities for earning community service hours or extra credit. There are activities for groups and single individuals and most only require a few hours to participate. Contact us and we'll help you find an activity just right for you!

Volunteering with us is a great way to have fun and support healthy streams and lakes. Everyone walks away feeling good!

Please see our Big Spring Clean photo album to see photos of one of our volunteer activities! Pictures speak volumes about the fun our volunteers have and the difference they make for our community!

All volunteers under the age of 18 must sign the CMSWS

Youth Participation Waiver to participate in each event or program. Children 15 years of age and younger must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Children ages 16-17 that can drive themselves to our events may have a parent or guardian sign the waiver and bring it to the event.

Volunteer Spotlight

This month we are highlighting an Adopt-A-Street group who recognized that the roadway they usually clean, was also in need of storm drain markers. The Dilworth Southend Rotary Club put out sixty storm drain markers along East Blvd, where they also cleaned the drains, making them free of debris so that rainwater can easily flow into them. Thank you so much for adding this extra task to your Adopt-A-Street volunteer work!