Environmental Stewardship Case Study:
Clear Creek Watershed Foundation (Water)
In the US, we have established community partnerships that encourage employee and community engagement in solving local water issues. We have had a partnership with the Clear Creek Watershed Foundation (CCWF) since 1997, being one of the founding members since the watershed feeds our iconic Golden, Colorado brewery.
The mission of the CCWF is to promote sustainable natural resource management throughout the entire watershed and serve as a model for the arid mountain west. A Molson Coors employee sits on the Board for CCWF and historically the company has been very active in projects and partnering.
Since CCWF has minimal overhead, the vast majority of the funds we provide are spent directly on water quality projects. These include funding orphaned mine mitigation, which helps to ensure the water quality of Clear Creek. Another recent project converted a mining spoils pile into a raft-launching park. Through innovative engineering and design, a pile of waste rock was turned into a park alongside Clear Creek.
When the Clear Creek Watershed improvement efforts began in earnest in the early 1990s, we realized that Coors has always been a good watershed neighbor through its responsible operations, generous financial and in-kind support, and ongoing concern for the overall health of the watershed. Molson Coors does not do this just to protect their assets, they are truly a basic ingredient for watershed sustainability.
Ed Rapp, P. E., Clear Creek Watershed Foundation President