Beginning in 1995, the Water Quality Forum partnered with the Community Action Committee, or CAC, to sponsor members of their AmeriCorps Program. The Forum sponsored a Water Quality Team focused on watershed education. In 2009, the Knox County Stormwater program stepped up to become the sponsor of the Water Quality Team.
Since 2017, the Water Quality Forum has hosted one AmeriCorps member who collaborates with members from stormwater programs in Knox County, Oak Ridge, Farragut and Lenoir City, as well as the Knox County Soil and Water Conservation District and Ijams Nature Center and other Americorps sites across the region.
In return for the Forum’s support and leadership, AmeriCorps members have energetically and creatively helped the Forum accomplish its mission. In short, the members have been and continue to be true to the AmeriCorps motto: getting things done!
