The Central Ohio Watershed (COW) Council is a forum that meets quarterly to bring together citizen-based watershed groups in Central Ohio.

The COW Council provides regional watershed organizations with an opportunity to network, share experiences and work on a collaborative regional approach to watershed protection and restoration. Formed by the OEC in the late 1990’s, the COW Council has focused on riparian corridor protection, wetland and stream mitigation, and stormwater impacts. The COW Council member organizations are currently evaluating opportunities for restoration funding opportunities to implement watershed action plans.

Contact the COW Council.

Do you care about protecting and restoring Lake Erie, Ohio's Great Lake, so that our children and grandchildren can experience the lake as we have?  Would you like to see the Clean Ohio Fund which has funded more than 660 projects, including 20,000 acres of habitat protected and over 100 toxic sites cleaned up, in 79 counties continued?  Do you want to make Ohio a better place to live, work and play?

So does the NEOW Council!  Recently the NEOW Council issued Watershed policy priorities for northeastern Ohio's future. (PDF) This document addresses vital environmental issues that cut across the state.  To learn more click here (PDF).

The Northeast Ohio Watershed (NEOW) Council is a forum that meets quarterly to bring together citizen-based watershed groups in Northeast Ohio. The NEOW Council provides regional watershed organizations with an opportunity to network, share experiences and advocate on local, state-wide, and federal legislation to protect and restore Northeast Ohio’s watersheds. Formed by the OEC in 2001, the NEOW Council member organizations focus on such issues as local watershed restoration, local land use, state legislation, and state rulemakings.

Contact the NEOW Council.

The Northwest Ohio Watershed (NWOW) Luncheon is a forum that meets quarterly to bring together citizen-based watershed groups in Northwest Ohio.

The NWOW Luncheon provides regional watershed organizations with an opportunity to network, share experiences and work on a collaborative regional approach to watershed protection and restoration.

Interested? Contact the NWOW Luncheon.

The OEC helped to create and organize the Southeast Ohio Watershed (SEOW) Council as a cooperative venture with Rural Action to address the needs of watershed groups in southeast Ohio’s coal mining region. Mining practices in some cases have rendered streams devoid of life because of acid mine drainage and runoff. The SEOW Council member organizations actively educate watershed residents, local officials and key state and federal legislative representatives on the specific issues that address watershed impairments.