All Donations are tax deductible. Please visit www.savefosterpark.com to donate and for more information about this project that would save our homes and restore Coyote Creek, one of Ventura County’s most historic native waterways. The storms this winter hit our community of Foster Park, Ventura CA incredibly hard causing severe damage on 1/9-1/10. Camp Chaffee Rd., our main way in and out is on a fair weather crossing through Coyote Creek. Our road is currently flooded/filled with debris and sediment, which has expanded through Coyote Creek to our entire community running approximately 2 miles from Casitas Dam to the confluence of the Ventura River. Following the atmospheric rivers our area experienced beginning in January this year, burn scar from the Thomas Fire came down Red Mountain into Coyote Creek, which is now filled with 10+ ft deep and 30-50 ft wide of build up. The levels are so high that they have become level and wall to wall with the homes along the creek and have created new courses that are threatening structures in an unprecedented way, leaving us with a one way, private road to get in and out of our community. Without something being done and this channel, we will lose our homes in the upcoming rainy season. With the support of Supervisor Matt LaVere’s office and in collaboration with Ventura Public Works, Watershed Protection District, NRCS/USDA, Ventura County Emergency Services Agency, Congressman Salud Carbajal’s and CALOES something is being done. In May, a proposal for this project was sponsored by Ventura Public Works and submitted by NRCS to create a pilot channel 25 ft wide and 5 ft deep, from the confluence of the Ventura River and up Coyote Creek 3,200′. This project will remove existing silt and debris, repairing our channel and providing a level of protection that was lost during this year’s storms, reestablishing the downstream flow. With this channel, our road will be freed of sediment giving us back our road crossing and protecting our homes from flooding. The total project cost is $1,500,000. Residents and the community of Foster Park’s required cost for the project is $94,000. As a working class community, we do not have this kind of money but we are doing everything in our power to raise it. We are applying to foundations for grants, created a website for donations, are planning small events and are organizing a Benefit Concert at Libbey Bowl in Ojai, CA. We have a community commitment of $40,000 and have raised an additional $10,000 and grants pending. The Ventura County Community Foundation has graciously allowed us to use them as an umbrella under thier 501c3, making all donations both monetary and in-kind tax-deductible. If we do not raise $94,000 the project will not happen and we will lose our homes and the beautifully amazing community we live in and all love. Please consider helping us. We had drone footage taken of the damage done on 1/9/23 and the following storms. View the uploaded videos including ground footage dating from 1/9/23 to 3/24/23 to offer you a better visual: