Our Environmental Commitment

Environmental conservation and sustainability are at the heart of our business – it drives all aspects of our work.  Like many people in our community, Watershed is concerned about our world’s environmental health, which by most measuring sticks seems to be in real decline.  We believe it’s important for our company to do what we can to minimize our contribution to that decline.

To that end, we do the following:

• Limit our driving and small engine use to conserve fuel
• Donate all our credit card points to charities (with an emphasis on environmental organizations but other organizations, too)
• Conserve water
• Reduce, reuse, recycle
• Avoid over-excavating
• Use biodiesel
• Use sustainable products and materials in our work wherever possible. For example, we won’t use tropical hardwoods – or softwoods, for that matter – for decks and fences

Environmental stewardship and conservation can be complicated, so we do our best to keep it simple. We know that there is a balance which must be maintained between a healthy environment and a working economy, but we believe the scales should be tipped in favour of the environment.