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!

Second Saturday	Second Saturday
VolunThursday	VolunThursday
Adopt-A-Stream	Adopt-A-Stream
The Big Spring Clean	The Big Spring Clean
Storm Drain Marking	Storm Drain Marking
Tree Planting Events	Tree Planting Events
Volunteer Monitoring	Volunteer Monitoring
SWAC	SWAC
Volunteer Events	Volunteer Events

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

We would like to send a huge round of applause to the Park South Station Neighborhood Adopt-A-Stream volunteers. Since joining the program in 2019, they have held three cleanups, which have contributed 86 bags of trash and an estimated 1,600 pounds of trash being removed from Little Sugar Creek. The participants of this group are all neighbors who join together to help keep their community clean and beautiful. Thanks for all you do for our water quality!