Identify Pilot neighborhoods; send out an email.

[dsummersl]

For the pilot, we'd like to pick a couple neighborhoods that we could reach out to. Ideally, if we could schedule a walk around the neighborhood with people that use the app, that'd be great. Maybe the Northgate Park and Ellerbe Creek Association?

[specious]

We could ping Ian Pond ([email protected]), President of the Northgate Park Neighborhood Association and organizer of the Big Sweep creek cleanup events.

[dsummersl]

The email we sent to NGP:

Hello neighbors,

The Durham City Stormwater & GIS Services department and Code for Durham are
collaborating to bring citizens a website that helps citizens and the city work
together to keep stormwater drains clear. Clean drains mean less flooding,
property damage, stream pollution and stress on our city infrastructure.

It is called Adopt-a-Drain.

Use Adopt-a-Drain to find stormwater drains in your neighborhood, and "adopt"
them. The website provides helpful information about cleaning drains. And when you
sign up on the Adopt-a-Drain website, the city will notify you of future cleanup
events in your area.

You can visit the website by following the link below:

https://adoptadraindurham.herokuapp.com/

Also, we have set up a button on the website called 'Give Us Feedback!'. Once you've
tried out the website, we'd love to have your feedback on this tool. It will
help us get ready for a more official launch of the website.

Thank you,

Dane Summers
Code for Durham

[specious]

I think that downtown Durham, as well as Trinity Park, Northgate Park, Watts-Hillandale, Walltown, Old West Durham, Duke Park and Morehead Hill are particularly suitable neighborhoods for introducing this app.

The Duke University community might be very interested in participating as well.