2025
The Cumberland River Compact relocates to the Neuhoff building.
Launch of partnership with MNPS to support environmental science teachers through professional development.
The Compact becomes an accredited land trust through the Land Trust Alliance.
Depave initiative reaches the milestone of 100,000 square feet of Nashville depaved.
Reached 30,000th student through water-focused environmental education programs.
2024
20th River Friendly Farm is certified, totalling 2,170 acres under improved management.
River Friendly Farms Grazing School is launched.
River Friendly Farms Terra Firma launched in conjunction with Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (S-SARE).
The Compact completes Tennessee’s largest suburban stream restoration on Trace Creek near the Natchez Trace.
Root Nashville plants its 50,000th tree.
2023
The Compact launches its Mine Land Reforestation Program with seed money from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation. It reforests its first 42 acres of previously mined land in Campbell County, TN in its first year.
2022
Partnership with Metro Nashville Public Schools for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) Expeditions across the district.
2021
The Compact receives the Governor’s Conservation Stewardship Award for Excellence in Water Quality.
The Cumberland River Compact receives the Tennessee Environmental Education Organization of the Year award.
Hill’s Island is generously gifted to the Cumberland River Compact by TennGreen Land Conservancy.
2020
Launched Nashville Youth Climate Summit.
2019
Root Nashville plants the first 5,000 trees to restore Nashville’s tree canopy.
The Compact receives the Governor’s Conservation Stewardship Award for Excellence in Natural Heritage.
2018
Launch of the Compensatory Mitigation program opens an opportunity for large-scale stream restorations to restore habitat of imperiled species.
Launch of Root Nashville.
Tennessee Association of Conservation Districts Conservation Promotion Award.
2017
The Cumberland River Compact’s Depave initiative begins.
2016
The Cumberland River Compact and the Nature Conservancy of Tennessee, with generous support from the National Fish and Wildlife Federation, partner to write a strategic plan for dam removals throughout Tennessee.
2015
First year of Waterfest in Cumberland Park - a free, fun science fair with water slides and sno-cones attracts thousands each summer.
2014
River Talks, An Educational Series at the Cumberland River Center, is born.
2013
The Cumberland River Compact moves into the Bridge Building.
2012
The Cumberland River Compact launches the Water for Schools initiative to Nashville Schools that harvests rainwater in 300-gallon cisterns for use in school gardens.
2011
The Rain Garden Manual wins the Tennessee Association of Landscape Architects’ highest honor.
2010
The Environmental Protection Agency funds the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative to promote the reduction of pesticides in conventional farming.
2009
The Compact partners with the Model Forest Policy Program’s southeast pilot case study for climate adaptation planning.
2008
Cumberland River Compact is honored by Metro Parks’ Nature Centers for their role in bringing a green roof, solar panels, and geothermal heating and cooling system to the park's nature centers.
2007
The Cumberland River Compact partners with World Wildlife Fund and Coca-Cola Bottling to promote rain barrel use and offer education about water reuse and conservation. World Wildlife Fund replicates the project internationally.
2006
The Cumberland River Compact hosts the First Annual Dragon Boat Race and River Festival with 35 teams and over 800 paddlers. The Cumberland River Compact receives the TN Governor’s Conservation Stewardship Award for Building Green.
2004
The Cumberland River Compact begins its policy work, helping local officials establish protections for waterways in rapidly developing counties like Robertson and Wilson.
2003
With the Catfish Out of Water City Art Festival, the Cumberland River Compact auctions public sculptures for placement throughout Nashville.
2002
The Cumberland River Compact begins its work inside Nashville with the Mid-Cumberland Watershed Association.
2001
The Cumberland River Compact starts the Red River watershed initiative.
2000
The Cumberland River Compact’s Marina Committee develops the Clean Marina program with the Army Corps of Engineers.
1999
The Cumberland River Compact starts the Harpeth River Watershed Initiative, funded by the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation and the Greater Nashville Regional Council
1998
The Water Quality Advisory Committee is established. The open committee is composed of scientists, policy makers, and government agencies to discuss and coordinate issues related to water quality in the Cumberland River Basin. This committee would go on to write the Sediment Study that identified sediment as the primary pollutant in the Cumberland River.
1997
The Cumberland River Compact’s Charter is written