Since 2016 we have “Swaled”

In 2016 the city of Portland, OR initiated the ”Green Street Stewards” program, a groundwater protection plan utilizing swales as catch basins for run off rainwater, and instead of sending into sewers now sends back into the soil, recharges our local aquifers and ground water sources more in line with what nature had planned since the beginning.

Portland Fashion Week is now the longest running “Swale Keeper” and we are recognized for our efforts each year as the organization with the most debris and trash collected.

Because we care.