LHS is pleased to continue our Speaker Series programs focusing on the importance of water resources in our community.
Janet Thomas has lived in Lafayette for 31 years and just a couple of blocks from Reliez Creek. She developed an environmental science course for the Acalanes Unified High School District and used that creek which borders the school and its surroundings as an outdoor classroom.
Ms. Thomas is now involved with the Lafayette Community Garden and Outdoor Learning Center, which is adjacent to Lafayette Creek. Her community involvement today makes use of her research and teaching experience in the Acalanes HS District as well as Mills College and the University of California at Berkeley.
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I have info that Murderer’s Creek in Pleasant Hill (3 branches) originates at Echo Springs in the Reliez Valley Road area. I am trying to find something about Echo Springs??? Can you or anyone else at the Lafayette Historical Society help me find this? Thanks, Dana
Thank you for your inquiry – we found reference to Echo Springs Road (in Reliez Valley) in one of our comprehensive research materials, but nothing on Echo Springs itself. I’m sorry we’ve not been able to assist you!
I lived at 3598 Stanley Blvd for a couple of years while attending Acalanes (graduated 1962). It was the first house on Stanley Blvd going east from Acalanes, and was right next to Reliez Creek. My Dad and I would fish in the Delta near Oakley or Rio Vista pretty often, and I must have released 25 or 30 live catfish into Reliez Creek over those couple of years. I assumed they survived…..