May delivered an average of 6.36 inches of precipitation to the Great Miami River Watershed — 1.69 inches above average for the month. The high station was Collinsville (8.72 inches), and the low station was Dayton (4.50 inches). As of the end of May, total 2017 precipitation stood at 20.45 inches which is 3.89 inches above average for ...

Temple Israel's 3rd annual Oy Vey 5K is set for Sunday, June 11, at the Jewish Cultural Festival. The race begins at 10:30 a.m. Click for a link to the event.

The next meeting of the MCD Board of Directors will be on Wednesday, June 21, at Smiths' Boathouse, 439 N. Elm Street in Troy. The work session will begin at 10 a.m., with the regular meeting at 1 p.m.

Come and enjoy all things strawberry. From strawberry burritos to strawberry doughnuts, you'll find it at Troy's annual Strawberry Festival. The event runs June 3 and 4. More than 250 arts and crafts vendors, food booths, live entertainment and more. Click for a link to the Strawberry Festival.

The Optimus 5K Run/Walk/Roll is scheduled for Saturday, May 20, at 10 a.m. at Eastwood Park along the Mad River Bikeway. For more information, contact Kelsey Holden at [email protected].

Work is scheduled to begin Monday to resurface a 4.2-mile section of the Great Miami River Bike Trail. The work will begin at Linden Avenue in Miamisburg and will finish at Montgomery/Warren County line at Crains Run Nature Park in Miami Township. Sections of the trail will be temporarily closed. But rolling detours, where trail users w ...

April brought an average of 4.28 inches of precipitation to the Great Miami River Watershed — 0.46 inches above the monthly average. The high station was Englewood Dam (5.67 inches), and the low station was Lockington Dam (2.98 inches). As of the end of April, the Great Miami River Watershed had received 14.09 inches of precipitation wh ...

Walk! Downtown Dayton is set for Wednesday, May 17, from noon to 1 p.m. at RiverScape MetroPark. Presented by Dayton & Montgomery County Public Health.

Have your well water tested for nitrate, nitrite and iron for FREE at the Test Your Well event on Thursday, May 18, from 4:30 to 6:30 at Carlisle High School, 250 Jamaica Road in Carlisle. The first 40 RSVPs are guaranteed free copper, lead and arsenic testing, too.

The 2017Troy Strawberry Festival is set for Saturday and Sunday, June 3 and 4. The festival will be held along the left bank of the Great Miami River between the Adams Street and Market Street bridges. The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on June 3, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on June 4.

Great Miami River trail users in Dayton should use caution near RiverScape MetroPark. The Miami Conservancy District (MCD) is repairing a stone wall along the levee behind the Dayton fire station at Main Street and Monument Avenue. The stone wall, which dates back to as early as the 1890s, is bulging. A concrete retaining wall built behi ...

March brought an average of 4.82 inches of precipitation to the Great Miami River Watershed — 1.68 inches above average for the month. The high station was Collinsville (6.75 inches), and the low station was Fort Loramie (3.11 inches). As of March 31, the Great Miami River Watershed has received 9.81 inches of precipitation in 2017 whic ...

The Miami Conservancy District is seeking professional staff to serve as the Great Miami Riverway Coordinator. This new staff position will work with a coalition of local agencies to manage the Great Miami Riverway Placemaking Initiative. The goals of the Great Miami Riverway Placemaking Initiative are to develop and implement ongoing mar ...

By next summer, paddlers may be able to launch upstream of downtown Dayton and float all the way to West Carrollton without a single portage. That’s because the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is planning to remove the Tait Station low dam, near the University of Dayton Arena, this summer. Tait Station Low Dam was built by DP&L ...

RESPONSIBILITIES You may be required to operate a large wheeled walk behind mower with a 30-inch mowing deck. The machine weighs approximately 250 pounds, has an 8-horsepower engine and a hand clutch that operates in a forward direction only. It will be necessary to operate this mower at times on steep hillsides. You may be required ...

Recent erosion in the spillways at California’s Oroville Dam has led to massive evacuations and fears of a dam failure. The Miami Conservancy District (MCD) owns five flood protection dams in the Miami Valley—Germantown, Englewood, Lockington, Taylorsville and Huffman. Could something like what’s happening at Oroville Dam happen her ...

The Chocolate and Beer 5K and 10K are set for Saturday, Feb. 18, at 3 p.m. Presented by KeySports.

December delivered an average of 2.87 inches of precipitation to the Great Miami River Watershed — 0.19 inches below normal for the month. The high station for the month was Springfield North (3.71 inches), and the low station was Union City (1.62 inches). The Great Miami River Watershed received an average of 37.07 inches of precipitat ...