The mission of the Coal Creek Watershed Coalition is to maintain, restore and enhance the environmental integrity of Crested Butte’s local watersheds to ensure those local watersheds and habitats are of the highest possible quality necessary to support wildlife, aquatic life, and human life.
 

GOALS

(1) Enhance the Coal Creek Watershed by reducing and, if possible, eliminating existing and potential water quality problems and restoring degraded habitats to achieve higher water quality or other appropriate understandable standards.
(2) Facilitate cooperative assessments and the exchange of information in order to identify and address water quality concerns in a proactive manner by providing high quality, objective, data.
(3) Increase public awareness of watershed issues by communicating water quality and watershed related information in relevant and understandable ways.
(4) Expand the public’s participation in protecting Crested Butte’s watershed. 
(5) Develop the internal capacity of the organization’s staff, board and other volunteers to accomplish the mission of the organization.
(6) Develop a strong and diverse funding structure to ensure the long term stability for funding core CCWC programs.
(7) Support water quality issues in watersheds outside of the Coal Creek Watershed on a case-by-case basis, while recognizing the existing limitations of staffing and funding.