Trail User Survey Results

Repeated Themes for Improvements

– Safety

– Dog Waste Disposal

– Keep the towpath unpaved

– Maintenance

– Trash
 Trail User Survey Results

Response Confounding
Rate Variables
Pet Waste Reduction Project

■ Needs Assessment-
– Feedback from Community Members
– Surveys
– Trail Assessments

■ Evaluation
Quote from a Concerned Community Member

“I wish I could keep Augusta’s best kept secret

just that- a secret; but fortunately and unfortunately,
more and more people are finding out about it, and it
is apparent through dog waste and trash.”
Educational &
Informational Signage

■ “Take a Bag, Leave a Bag” model

– Community Involvement

■ Why is this important?

Pre-Implementation Dog Owner Survey

■ Purpose:

– To Determine Current Dog Owner Behaviors

– To Gauge Interest on Community Involvement

Regarding Pet Waste Bag Dispenser
 Pre-Implementation Dog
8 Owner Survey
7

0
Do you usually pick up Do you carry your own Would a dog waste station If a "grocery bag donation"
after your dog? bags? at the headgates increase dispenser was
the chance of you picking implemented, would you
up after your dog? donate bags?
Yes No Maybe/Sometimes
 Average Incidences of Pet Waste
Before and After Implementation
25

20

15

10

0
Lake Olmstead Trailhead Water Pump Station Trailhead Headgates at Savannah
Rapids
Before After
Suggestions for
Improvement
■ Increased resources for maintenance
– Additional staff

■ Increase the number of trashcans

– Increase the frequency of trash pick up
Questions?