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The City of Akron is delighted to host its 9th annual Blue Heron Homecoming on Saturday, June 24, 2023 from 10 AM to 2 PM at the Water Reclamation Facility, located at 2460 Akron Peninsula Road. This…

              On June 17th, the City of Akron hosted the 8th annual Blue Heron Homecoming. The event had a great turn-out from the start, running out of rain barrel vouchers 2 hours into the festival…

AWR! has resumed its rain barrel program at the Blue Heron Homecoming Festival Friday, June 17, 2022. Due to limited quantities, rain barrels are only available by voucher for the first 200 families…

The All-Akron Student Engineering Program started as an outreach facet of the Akron Waterways Renewed! Program in 2016, and has since grown into a full-fledged program that works with all Akron…

We’ve made it to year eight! Since 2015, the Blue Heron Homecoming has expanded community involvement in the Akron Waterways Renewed! program and in water quality throughout the region. Every year,…

Highly Meritorious—was what the AASEP’s recent application was dubbed by the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring—a…

Congratulations to our AASEP members. Last weekend two current and two former AASEP students secured the number one spot in the world in VEX Robotics. The VEX Robotics competitions are extra-…

Autumn Leaves Are Falling. “Leave” Them on Your Lawn for a Healthy Yard & Clean Water! Autumn leaves are starting to fall and now is a good time to consider alternatives to dumping them in the…

Want to grow your own Rain Garden? On Saturday October 23, 2021, Akron Waterways Renewed! will be hosting a rain garden giveaway for the citizens of Akron in participation of Stormwater Awareness…

A common topic discussed in the world of water is green versus gray infrastructure because they both reduce stormwater runoff. Green and gray use different systems to rid and reroute stormwater…