Native Plants - Clean Water Services

Native Plants: Get to the Root of their Beauty and Benefits

At Clean Water Services, our favorite plants are native plants. Local birds, bees, and butterflies agree. Native plants are vitally important to protecting and supporting a healthy watershed. They are adapted to our climate, soils, and ecosystems.

Critical Infrastructure Meets the Natural Landscape

When you kayak along the river or take a stroll through your neighborhood park, you may not realize the critical infrastructure just below the surface, hiding underground and carrying wastewater to a treatment facility or stormwater to a nearby waterway.

Shower Our Watershed With Love

There are plenty of ways you can show your love for the river, to help keep this symbiotic relationship healthy and strong.

An aerial shot of people kayaking on the Tualatin River in late evening as the sun shines over the trees.

Destructive Beetle Threatens Trees that Shade Our Rivers and Streams

The Emerald Ash Borer has the potential to cause the local extinction of Oregon’s native ash species. Native ash makes up about 70% of the Willamette Valley forests that surround rivers and streams.