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Volunteers to Clean Rivers and Streams in Fourteenth Annual River Cleanup...

In October and November, area residents will wade into metro rivers, lakes and streams as part of the continuing statewide campaign to clean and preserve over 70,000 miles of Georgia's rivers and streams. The effort will be part of Rivers Alive, a joint program of DNR's Environmental Protection Division and Keep Georgia Beautiful, the Fourteenth Annual Georgia Waterway Cleanup is expected to once again be the largest single volunteer effort to beautify Georgia's water resources.



Local volunteers will be joining an estimated 28,000 other volunteers statewide participating in the Annual River Cleanup. During the month of October over 170 other cleanups will collect trash and other debris in streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands from the Coosa River in North Georgia to the Okefenokee Swamp in the South. That is why this year's event is called, "Clean Water From the Mountains to the Sea."



During the 2004 River Cleanup, more than 22,000 volunteers cleaned over 1,250 miles of waterways and removed over 590,317 pounds of trash and garbage including tires, children bikes, a safe and telephone booth from the State's waterways, according to Mitch Russell, Coordinator of Rivers Alive expects this year's River Cleanup to involve hundreds more volunteers and to continue to be the State's largest volunteer effort to beautify Georgia's water resources. In 2004, Georgia participated in the International Coastal Cleanup and had the second largest clean up in the country based on the number of volunteers. The State had the largest cleanup based on amount of trash removed per volunteer.



This event is sponsored by fifteen corporations including Ocean level sponsor of Ocean Conservancy, Georgia Power, Lake level sponsor include Canon, The Coca-Cola Company, and International Paper, United Parcel Service, Inc. River level sponsors are BellSouth, MeadWestvaco, Georgia Ports Authority, Kodak Polychrome Graphics, Oglethorpe Power, and Plum Creek Timber Company.



Other sponsors of the statewide campaign include: Georgia Adopt-A-Stream, Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division, Keep Georgia Beautiful and Affiliates, Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Clean Coast, Inc., Clean Water Campaign, The Coca-Cola Company, Columbus Waterworks, Georgia Land Trust, Georgia Project WET/River of Words, Georgia Power, Georgia River Network, Georgia Wilderness Society, International Paper, Lake Lanier Association, Meadwestvaco, National Park Service 8211; Chattahoochee Recreational Area, Ogeechee-Canoochee Riverkeeper, Oxbow Meadows Environmental Learning Center, Peavine Watershed Alliance, Plum Creek Timber, and dozens of other local organizations will be sponsoring individual cleanups around the State.



For more information about efforts in other areas or the statewide campaign, call 404-675-1636 or go to www.riversalive.org.



Kelley O'Brien

Clean Water Campaign

404-463-3259

    
   
   
   

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