Orange County Creek Week celebrates the streams, lakes, and rivers that connect our human and non-human communities.

The signs define the boundary of the stream buffer and remind people in the area to follow good environmental practices.

Show your love for Orange County’s waterways during the first-ever Orange County Creek Week, set for March 12-19. The initiative will engage the public on the importance of clean and healthy waterways.

Water springing from a granite ridge millions of years in the making is a main reason for Carolina’s location. Here’s a look at how that water flowing under and through campus becomes the University’s Meeting of the Waters Creek.