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THE YEAR OF CLEANWATF.R
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I 'Ex._ecutive Summa'!/

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For the past 10 years, Georgia's Annual River Cleanup has seen tremendous growth.

Initiated by Curtis Farrar, a past DNR Board member, the cleanup has developed into an

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event with support from a multitude of organizations, both private and government. In it's present manifestation, the cleanup is called Rivers Alive, Georgia's Annual Volunteer

Waterway Cleanup.

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The first cleanup was organized by the DNR Wildlife Division and held in 1992. This

"statewide" cleanup focused attention on the Oconee, Ocmulgee, Satilla, and Alapaha

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watersheds. In 1993, organization of the cleanup was divided among the various divisions within DNR: Wildlife Resources, Environmental Protection, Coastal, and Water Resources.

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The DNR encouraged participation throughout all State waterways.

In the mid 90's, Georgia Adopt-A-Stream became the lead program spearheading the annual

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river cleanup. It is important to note that throughout the 90's other government and nongovernment organizations conducted cleanup events at different times of the year, focusing

on particular regions or watersheds within the State. However, there was no collaboration

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between government and non-governmental entities.

In 1999, a significant change occurred - the various

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cleanup organizations throughout the State unified for

the first time to form Rivers Alive. The rationale was that

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there would be many advantages to forming a single, unified cleanup event: the primary advantage being the

solicitation of private donations from corporations to

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support our cleanup organizers and volunteers.

Previous river cleanup events in Georgia have been

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successful. However, they pale in comparison to the success that has been achieved by Rivers Alive. The graphs on the following pages illustrate

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how the cleanups have grown since the program was conceived in 1992. Take note of the dramatic improvements witnessed in all areas since the 1999 unification of all statewide

cleanup events under Rivers Alive.

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2002 was no different. With over 120 events scheduled, Rivers Alive 2002 made its mark

across Georgia with over 780 miles of waterways cleaned and over 300,000 pounds of

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garbage removed. 2002 was also the 30th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act, which served

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as Rivers Alive 2002's theme - Clean Water: Make it Georgia's Future - and was a key component in our messaging to the public. Rivers Alive also teamed up with the Georgia River of Words, an International Art and Poetry Project designed to nurture respect and understanding of the natural world. Children are encouraged to learn their ecological address by honing their observation skills and then through poetry and art, describe their own sense of place. River of Words is a K-12 watershed study sparked by former US Poet Laureate, Robert Hass. In 2002, Rivers Alive used three drawings and two poem created by Georgia students that participated in the project on promotional materials.
However, 2002 was a flat year for the number of volunteers. Initial estimates were very promising predicting over 20,000 volunteers but increased rainfall, the threat of West Nile and general liability concerns kept the numbers lower than 2001. Efforts are in place for 2003 to surpass the 2001 numbers.
The final stats for the 2002 cleanup are:

Number of participants
16,698

Volunteer hours 61,649

Number of bags 15,143

Dump trucks
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lbs of garbage
301,189

Miles cleaned
780

In addition to cleaning our streams and rivers, cleanup events now include a diversity of

activities such as watershed festivals, stream bank stabilization projects, watershed and

nonpoint source education, riverboat tours, wastewater

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treatment facility tours and environmental education

workshops.

The annual cleanup is dependent on a strong volunteer base of citizens, concerned about and prepared to take action to clean their local waterways. Proof of this can be seen in the number of organizers participating in this year's cleanup and the diverse representation we have on our Rivers Alive Advisory Board who put in countless hours assisting with this program so it can be the best.

Participating corporate sponsors provide statewide funding making possible the production and distribution of Rivers Alive T-shirts to all volunteers. For Rivers Alive 2002, 21 corporations donated funding totaling $77,500. They included AT&T, BASF, Beers Skanska, BellSouth, Canon USA, Inc., Clean Water Campaign, The Coca-Cola Company, CVS Pharmacy, Inc., Direct Access International, GEMC Georgia Magazine, Georgia Pacific, The Home Depot, International Paper, Meadwestvaco Coated Board
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Division, Miller Brewing Company, Mohawk Industries, Inc., Oglethorpe Power Corporation, Plum Creek Timber Company Inc., Six Continents Hotels, UPS and Waste Management. Contributors to Rivers Alive include Jameson Inns and Ford Motor Company. The sponsors of the 11th Annual Cleanup not only provided generous funding for Rivers Alive, but many also work to promote, organize and participate in local cleanup efforts within their communities and among their employees. Other sponsors of the statewide campaign include: Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division's Adopt-A-Stream Program, Georgia Department of Community Affairs' Keep Georgia Beautiful and Affiliates, Altamaha Riverkeeper, Bellsouth Pioneers, Columbus Waterworks/Oxbow Meadows Environmental Learning Center, Georgia Forestry Commission, Georgia Wildlife Federation, Lake Lanier Shore Sweep, Peavine Watershed Alliance, Georgia Project WET/River of Words, and Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. Despite the tremendous success we have experienced, there is still room to grow. There is every indication that we can continue to expand our program in 2003!
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2002 Statewide Cfeanups
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2002 Jltfanta Jlrea Ckanups

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Citizen volunteers can and do make a different in our communities. Here folks
from Clarkston, Helen and Chamblee team up with neighbors and students to
clean Georgia's waterways.
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Wow.....Look at these volunteers in action!

2002 2(jvers .9l.five .9l.rticfes

'J.lg,wspapers
Albany Herald Athens Banner News Atlanta Inquirer Atlanta Journal and Constitution Augusta Chronicle Barrow County News Berrien Press - Nashville Blackshear Times Bryan County Times - Pembrook Chieftain and Toccoa Record Claxton Enterprise Clayton Neighbor Coastal Courier - Hinesville Columbus Ledger - Enquirer Comer News Cordele Dispatch Courier Herald - Dublin Daily Citizen - Dalton Daily Herald - McDonough Danielsville Monitor Douglas County Sentinel - Douglasville Douglas Neighbor Eatonton Messenger
Glennville Sentinel
Gwinnett Daily Post - Lawrenceville Harris County Journal - Hamilton Hogansville Home News Jeff Davis County Ledger - Hazelhurst Macon Telegraph Madison County Journal- Danielsville Manchester Star Mercury Marietta Daily Moultrie Observer Meriweather Vindication - Greenville Metter Advertise Monroe County Reporter
News Daily - Jonesboro
News Leader - Royston News Observer - Blue Ridge Northeast Georgian - Cornelia

Northside/Sandy Springs Neighbor Oconee Enterprise Pickens County Progress - Jasper Pike County Journal & Reporter - Zebulon Post Searchlite - Bainbridge Revue and News - Alpharetta/Roswell Rockdale Citizen-Conyers Rockdale Neighbor Statesboro Herald Talbotton New Era The Advance Program - Vidalia The Effingham Herald The Forest Blade - Swainsboro The Times - Gainesville Thomaston Times Tifton Gazette Times Georgian - Carrolton Times Herald - Newnan Valdosta Daily Times Walton Tribute Waycross Journal/Herald
Magazinel'l\[f,wsfetters:
Action -Atlanta Regional Commission Dragonfly Gazette - GA Project WET Georgia Adopt-A-Stream Newsletter Georgia Bar Journal The Link - Georgia Environmental
Education Alliance Newsletter Georgia Magazine Green Scenes Clean Water Campaign Website Fox 5 website Watershed News -Fulton County Water
CJ'e{evision Coverage:
Good Day Atlanta TV program
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Athens Banner Herald October 27, 2002

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Tim Dolan and Will Summers ack trash and debris found along the North Oco ee River, participating in

the 11th Annual Rivers Alive! on Satu rday. The program is part of a statewide ri ver clean-up sponsored by the Georg ia Department of a ural Resou rc,es , Adopt-a-Stream Program and tile Keep Georgia Beautifu l

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N orthside /Sandy Springs Neighbor September 25, 2002

River clean up effort seeks volunteers

By Kristen Ristino
Norths de Ne, hbor S1aff Writer
'!'he 1 I th annual Rivers Alive deanup is as much about picking up tra,h as it is about education and pn.1ention.
Karin Zarin. cxccuti, C' director of Kc p , andy Spring /North Fulton Beautiful. is h !ping to coordinate the north Fulton Chattahoochee River clean up, part of a statewide ,olunteer event.
we'll have an education ection with hand 'On activitie for kids and adults o people can learn m1JT about water pollution and way to prevent li11 r and polluted storm wacet runoff," satd Ms. Zarin.
The north Fulton ,vent i scheduled for awrday, Oct. 5. at the Challahoochec River Park on /\zalea Drive in Roswell, from 8:30 a.m . to noon. Vo lunteer v,li.11 receive free 1 shirts, lunch and have the chance to
gee a guided ecology tour of th e river
on a pontoon boat. l\1ore than 200 peo pl e have
already igned up to volunteer. and
more are welcome, aid M . Zarin. Sixteen canoes wi ll be available for volunteer to dean up area of the river that cannot be reached by foot.
In the 200 l. 3,000 pound of

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Amy Bram left. as Mother Earth from the Chattahoochee Nature Center and Sean Pennington as Mr. Rain Drop with the Clean Water Campaign hope many volunteers turn out to clean up the Chattahoochee River on Saturday, Oct. 5.

tra h were picked up from the 1ivcr. '"People arc oft n amazed at how
mud1 trash i. on the river b,mks." said Ms. Zarin. "People don't rcalilC thac when it rain., anY1hing that i in the s treets goes into the
Chattahoochee River." A safe r activity (or families and
c hi ld ren i the to rm drain edu cation program. Volumcers will pl ai:e "no dumping" d cal~ on 1orm drains and hand out lca0ets door to
door encouraging people not to dump pollutanl and trash down

storm drain . Hain water that mm off rooftop
a11d pavement carric with it pollutallt~. It is not treated or deaJ1ed
befo r it goe directly into the ril-cr ,~a streams and creeks.
people have to realitc the Chauahooehee River i o u r only source of drinking water and rhe more pollutant in the river. the worse it j - for our health." he aid. For more information, visit www.ri,crsalivc.org or call (7i0)
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Northside/Sandy Springs Neighbor October 16, 2002

Jonathan Curren/Staff
Courtney Brown, left, and Rebekah Capps of Team V.O.l.S. from the University of Tennessee help clean up the Big Trees Forest Preserve and its stream as part of Rivers Alive cleanup month across the state of Georgia. A total of 25 students from the university took ti me from their fall break for th e cleanup.
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Times Georgian Carrollton
October 6, 2002

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T, m Ca.rror-e.. C m illa Isra.-el and F.m.ily Cwnmi.ng fii~h out a m ju~ the. w in tbt! C hatt hoc~hec Ri er, wlhi]e Joshua ~ ohm.on an d Christ.ophcr
,Johm;oo a te durin~ the Ri ers Aliv- clc.'1:t up at the McIntosh Reser e Saturd a~- " riend of th e 1d:nto h Reser.Te 2;1!nd volunteers partic.ipoted :n th0 annmd s1:ate Ri c1 Alh~ p !r'ojoct to lean up trash a l,ong the river
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The Madison County Journal November 6, 2002

SCOUTS PARTICIPA'fE IN CLEANUP

Den lo{ Cub Sco u t Pack 'S77 partictpa1ed in the l'vfad,S\m C, m nly ~'iHl. and Beautiful "Rrve1"!1 Ali\ progr.<m. T h cout and l hcir families picked up ~ra..qh at C 1rhcm r .,rk. l'ic11.m.Li IL-.RJ an Stephe n

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Toccoa Record October 29, 2002

Two ...oluntoo,. 110rt garbage th&)' pulled 0111 of r.treambed nowtn.( froiw Lake lf.artwon. They nicyded all p,oHJblO tn11~b Uiat 1hey picked up, ln<:llldlrtg gl.! , plu tlc botties and c.ana.

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It wa~ u gly and hid under a

brklf,ll. but it wa~nt a tl'oll .

fifteen hundred pound, or

i;;arbage lurked bi th!I vicinity

of Broken 81'idges find on

Highwey 123 along e shores

of Lake H,qrtwPII.

Forl>-ni ne volunteers wi h

Keep Tocooa tuphcr1s Coun ty

I3c u1lful hunted, colleced and

snr ed th litter so that it could

r c>clerl.

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Od. 26 and fmi~hccl up around

noon.

Groups from the Blue Ridge

Outd or Recrl'.1tion ut11t'r 1Jt

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tege, Clem,on u1,l..-1m;ity, "-4!~

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It was the bi;rnesl lltrn ut

t hey h .l>'C yet had. 'We were

s.urpris rt !hat ch area was :,u

di.rt~- sa iu Victoria G1ralt, e:,

er.u i\e dirccto of KTSCB.

"&!muse it i5 th ome site

that was t:lcw,ed Ja~t ;ear:''

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noes al0t H the . hares nf f.1 ke

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Cordele Dispatch October 4, 2002

OUR OPINION
Do your part:

Help pick up

lake trash

L ake Blackshear is one of the biggest bonuses ofliv ing in Crisp Cow1ty. Frolicking in its waters, y9W1g sters discover sheer delight in its splash. Teens test

themselves atop it - on knee boards, skis and all manner

of equjpment designed to thrill. Fishermen patiently pur

sue that "big one"lurking beneath the surface. Even the

weary fmd re pite watcrung sunlight dance acros the

lake.

Recreation and meditation aside, the lake also provides

another bonus - discounted power made possible by the

power commission

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For more than 70 years now, Crisp Coun-


We love our lake.

tians have benefitted
from Lake Blackshear. The attention, however,

But we don't always respect it. It's time

hasn't been all good news for Ille lake. Bobbing in the flow are

for that to change. Saturday is a good

some signs of that added attention: plastic bottles, styrofoam pieces and bits. Dot:t.i.ng

day to begin.


the shoreline is more'

evidence: Bait cups, discarded paper, a!uminum cans.

We love our lake. But we don't always respect it. It's

time for that to change,

Saturday is a good day to begin.

At 9a.m. SatttrdaY, volunteers will gather at one ofthe

lake's most popular swimming spots - the Blue Hole at

Ferry Landing Road and Scenic Route. For two hours

they will get down and dirty- picking up trash and

debrisat in the springs area and around the boat landing

at Smoak Bridge.

Ifs part of Georgia's lltJ1 annual Rivers Alive cleanup,

a continuing statewide campaign to clean and preserve

the state's 70,150 miles of rivers and strean1s, including all

8,700 acres ofLake Blackshear.

During last year's cleanup, more than 18,000 volunteers

cleaned more than 650 miles of waterways and removed

120,000 poW1ds of trash and 0 arbage including, refrigera

tors, cars and furniture from the state's waterways.

Anyone can join in this yea.i's effort, ifnot by way of

Saturday's cleanup then by collecting trash and other

debris in streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands across the

state.

We wge you to get involved with the Lake Blackshear

cleanup. Our lake provides cheap power; great recreation

al opportunities and pleasant respite for our busy day-to

day lives.

Staii takmg care of it now to ensw-e this ai-ea has the
same lake opportunities for generations to come.

Times Georgian - Carrollton November12,2002

Pic tured left to right are: Mike Isbe ll, Doris Abney, -Phillip Nowicki Belle Sharpe, Latisha Abney, Alex Lipford, Betty Lipford , Randal Lipford, Keith Nwicki, Kaylie Long. Not picture d: Chris and Ellen Nowicki
Balls Are Everywhere
in the Chattahoochee

"We j ust cleaned t his section of the

river last year" I said to Latisha a nd

Phillip "And it's trashier now Utan it

was last year.'' I could not be lieve this

section of the Chattahoochee River in

Heard county could get so messed up in

one years time.

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MIKE ISBELL

Bu t it was. Saturday mor n:ing was a beautiful

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day to be on the banks' o( the

Chattahoochee. The sky was clear and Litter constantly floats down t be

the air temperature was in the fifties. r iver from who knows where. But since

b ut quickly warmed into the sixties. It Heard county has no McDonalds, one

was a shame that the river bank was so tlting I can say with a fair amou nt of

t ra hy.

certainty-those i\11.cDooald balls didn't

I had on hi p waders for the cleanu p come from here!

so I could wade out in t he water to But you can't blame all the li tter and

reach the litter that Latisha an d junk 0 11 our upstream neighbors. Fish

Phillip couldn't reach without gett ing bait containe rs, botlles and cans, bro

wet. We hadn't worked too long before ken lawn chairs, and discarded fishi ng

Latisb.a wanted to wear the waders.

li ne, litt.e r Urn ground in areas where

Balls were everywhere. Tennis balls, some "spor men" fish from the shore.

softballs, soccer balls, basket balls, 'lb keep ou r river and lake beautiful,

even 'bai\s hom McDonn\o;;, -we-re t he Jitter has to be removed. and tb at's

among the littm floating or washed up just what this group of Heard County

on the bank s of t he Chattahoochee. 4-H'ers did last Saturday. They joined

"We picked up 37 tennis bal ls" Alex t housands of other volunte rs l'rom all

said when I got near him.

over our stale in t be annual Rivers

I didn't even begin to count Ute ones Alive ,;ver cleanup.

I picked up.

Las t yea r the 7th and 8th grades

Latisha, Phillip, and Alex, 4-H mem from Ephes us School cleaned one-half

bers in Heard county, were among a mile ofrivcr ba nk and removed 17 bags

larger group of Heaid Cow1ty 4-H'ers of litter, a few old tires and barrels, a

and parents d eaning a part of the chair, a refr igerator, and balls.

Chat tahooch e River in this year's '!'his year we removed abottt 50 bags

state wide Rive r's Alive Clean Up.

of litter, severa l tires , bane ls, and

As the river twists and turns as it chairs, and of cour c-the balls.

reaches the upper part of West Point All the. e kids can see they are doing

Lake, litter becomes trapped along the something t hat's good - an d that's

bank and against rocks and trees lying helping lo keep our Ch attaboochee

in the water. Ennels, tires, refrigera beautiful.

tors, lawn chafrs, propane gas tanks, Mike fab ell i,~ the Heard County

Jitter, and balls of all kind, eventually Extension Agent.

settle somewhere in the river and lake.

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Flint fix-up

Local volunteers lend a hand to ma e a difference along the Flint River.
KEITH SALIBA
STAFF WRITER
ALBANY - Albany' Don Cook doe n't like a me -especially if it's 8 garbage-strewn stretch of the Flint

hand. collecting enough tras h from the

r iverbank near Third venue last yea r
to fill 80 30-gallon gaTbage ?ags.

Cook, who moved from Miar 1 to .

Albany in 1976 to take the Danon Job,

became inYolved with the Audubon

Society - and by ext.en ion, RiYers

Alive - after retiring in 199 .

ba"c1kuysaerdd,tosoloIvewewnatc~hiangcobuipd1e"

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meetings," sa id Cook . "The ne~t tuna

River. o, th president of the Albany .
Audubon Society decided to take ht love of nature and birdwatching a step further. He decided to make a differ-

I knew, they'd shangha ied me m o becoming president.
Now, they're o_ut watching bi.rd ,, and I'm stuck dorng the paperwork , he said wit h a laugh.

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Not that he'd rat.her be doing anything else.

Cook and hi band of volunteers will

"J don't do any of the normal things

take to the banks of the Flint as part you do when you're retired. I don t

of the 11th annual River_ ~v~, a pri- play golf. I don't hunt., and 1 don't

vately funded volunteer rn!tiative

paint my hou e," he aid, la ughing.

who e goal is to clean up nver .

But the river i our waLcr, ow-

throughout the state.

. . . ' cleanliness, our lives."'

Holding the cleanup to co111c1de ',Vlt_h .. Kirn Morris-Zarneke, a spoke -

Make A Difference Day make sense, . : woman "~~th Georgia's Adopt-A-

said Cook, becau e that's exacUy _what ' . Stream, the organization that over ee

he and other volunteers are strivmg to ' Rivers Alive, said volunteers like Cook

do.

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"It' just so depressing to_seE;, t he

tiash to see people not caring, said

Cook, a retired Darton Colle~e math

professor. "If we can)ust get it cl~an;d

up, maybe people will top pollutmlf. This marks the second year Cook .

society has lent Rivers Alive a helping

are just what the doctor ordered for cleaning up the state's more than 70 000 mile of river and treams.
Last year, 18,000 volunteers cleared more t han 120 000 pounds of tr~sh from hundreds of miles of Georgia
. Please see Fltnt, 48

Fl int
Continued from 1B
waterways, he said. 'l'hat number is expected t.o
climb this year, with more than 125 statewide cleanups sla ed for October alone aid MorrisZarne e.
1' e problem, he ay , lies in what' known a. non-poinl sourced poll ution, things like
!

ca ndy wrappers, aluminum

cay and fast-food cartons that

can't be traced to a specitic, cor-

porate polluter.

.

"With that. sort of pollution,

there's no way we can go to a

compan and hold it account-

able,' -he said. "The only way

t he trash is going to get

cleaned up is if ,,olunteers go

ou and clean it up."

or more information on

Rivers Alive, call Cook at (229

436-9915 or e-mail him at tdct-

dc@surfsouth.com.

Albany Herald October 2, 2002

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Volunteers keep Georgia's rivers flowing

You might not thin k twice :ibout seeing an empty ca n, botde or cigarette bull l ying along the water's edge. 13ut to d1e 21 ,000 volunteers participating in die 2002 Rivers Alive waterway cleanup program, trash clogging our state's streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands is exactly what they're concerned about.
In its 11th year, Rivers ,\ Jive's goal is to raise awareness o f d1e need to keep Georgia's water supply clean and safe. Sponsored by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the Adopl-A- cream Program and Keep Georgia Beautiful Program, as well as "Help rhe Hooch'' and "River Awareness," volunteers and funding are provided by corporations and community organizations around the state.

ln 2000, along rhe 332 miles of Georgia's waterways, volumeers removed 8,220 bags and 59 clump-truck loads of trash, equating to 182,532 pounds of garbage. lhi.s fall, more th, n 116 cleanup events are set.
A group of 36 volunteers, sponsored by the Oconee County Clean and Beauliful Commission, met Aug. 17 to tackle the shoa Is of the Apalachee River-a known patty hangout for college sru lents. They removed four 30-gallon bags of aluminum ca ns, an old refrigerator and a rusted-out water heater, and nearly

a ton of garbage along the river, ays John McNa lly, executive director of the commission.
Despite what they found , McNally remains optimistic. "In the four years of cleanup, the beach has never been cleaner than when we arrived this Lime," he ays.
To get involved in Rive1 Alive, or to clean a waterway in the state or your com munity, visit www.1ive1-s alive.mg.

AT&T, BASF, Been Slcanslca, BellSouth, M Phcrmacy, Canon USA 1111., Clean Water Compaign,The Coco-Cola Company, Dired Access lntemationol, GEORGIA Mogame, Georgia Paofk, The Home Depot, International Pupet-, MeocN/eslvaco, Maer Brewing Company, Mohawk lncMtries Inc., Oglethorpe Power Corp., l'lwi Creelt,Six Contioents Hotels, UPS and Waste Mcmgement. Addilionol suppalt is provided by The Ferd Motor Company clld Jameson Inns.

The Georgia Magazine October 2002

Courier Herald - Dublin October 15, 2002
Cleanup crew

Local volunteers met at every boat landing along the Oconee River in Laurens County Saturday morning to participate in Rivers Alive, the 11th annual Georgia River Cleanup. It is estimated over 20,000 volunteers sta ewide participated to clean and preserve Georg ia's 70, 150 mi les of rivers and s reams. Laurens County

cleanup groups were the local Boy Scout Troops, Keep DublinLaurens Beautiful Commi ttee members, Bellsouth Pioneers and the Outdoors Section of lhe Dublin-Laurens County Recreation Authority. Shown are members of Bellsouth Pioneers as they pick up trash at Blackshear Ferry landing. (Ph oto by Stephanie Miller)

Jeff Davis Ledger September 25, 2002
ivers Alive
Clean Up
'Little River '
Plans are underway for the cleanup of Little Ocmulgee River, Oct. 5 at 8 a.m.
River Alive is Georgia's annual volunteer waterway cleanup event, held throughout the month of October. ponsored by the Georgia De-
partment of aturaI Re ource , Geor-
gia Adopt-A-Stream program, the Georgia Department of Community Affair , Keep Georgia Beautiful Program and in cooperation with "Help the Hooch" (Columbu ) and 'River Awareness," Rivers Alive is a tatewide event that target cleanup aero all waterways in Georgia. The mi sion i to create awarenes of and involvement in the preservation of Georgia's water re ources.
October 18 i the 30th anniversary of the enactment of the Clean Water Act. Thi date marks a mile tone in the efforts to protect our nation '
water resource . Thi anniver ary also present an excellent opportunity to enhance public appreciation for the importance of our water resources, celebrate water quality improvement and educate our nation' young people.
For more information about the cleanup, contact Tri h Burn. McDaniel at 912-363-9025.

Church reades for river cleanup

By M ichael Burns
' ,,m.1: rn~,,

local hll rch ,, II c

d ing lcs pan ror 1e e111iro11

mt>n , :1 ri er clea up eve 11

, al1JT<l11y.

Tri- 11ncy Bap1 i. 1 urcJ-,

in C:im to n will hep le:m u p

th mc Iola Rivr a a pan

of th 1> 11rh ann uaJ River ,\ Ii event. i'I ~,:-uewid e e ffon
tn h aut ify Ge rgi:ls wa, re~. urc;e~.
Cln m.:h member r a.trice

Greg Lamb, astor or Trl-C nty too , le , readies supplies for th is w with cl1uroh member Pair e Cook, The cti urch will be
participating in lhe 11th annual Rivers Alive event.

Cnok is org.ani7ing thPchurrh 's

r, part icipal ion in th evenl. 1s. "Ever>onc S-ccms r ally e nd up de~ ro <ing it." h aid.
r:nok said ~ e exdced her excited ab ut it," .she said . I Du ring last year' Riv

church has gotten involve d. e:xpectcd the c hll<lrcn wo ultl Ali \e I anup. more than

' I fe I like we shoul do be 1.tUe te<I, bu t a lot uf e Ul,000 vn lu teen; eno cl

anything we can to prcser\'e adt~ts a.re lmeresce,d , too: mor th n GSOmile fwat r-

the Eanh and help out our

community ," she said .

l

Gr,-.:g Larnl, old he weys, cull llc tin g 120, 00
that b.is ituch wlll pound or trash.

~1s. Cook said n arlv :'10

,adng in tl ,e cve111.

.'\n ,;tim ted 20,000 peo-

people ha\e already sign d

ant to in spire our ple will anicipat in the

up to partic ipa te Sat urda y_ young p c :wd our adul ts c"cn t Lhb rear.

The gro up from the ch urch to preserve and prot ct ete Ms. ok aid tlrn hurc:h is

will e cl eaning th e: act ion of

futu gen ta welcomin~ a nvon c who

the river ticar Steele Elritlg ,

ab e tu enj Vs a n ts tu ht.'ilp in tl1e c-~'11 1.

which ii; near the Cl11m1lce w

ed.

For inform tltm, call M .

borthir w ith Picke ns and

"l e'.

that we ok I (770) 735-1G9G-

Udwson counti s_

respe 1

t we co uld

bums Ocherokeetribune.oom

Cherokee Tribune October 24, 2002

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l East Panlcling Nlielctle ~ChOOI
Keepers of the Earth Cl11b Rivers Ali,re Cleant1p Saturday, Nov. 2
Dallas New Era November 21, 2002

Bat'k Row !Ct c, right:,are: D e',.j 'Brnwn, 'Rym1 J!rown, J osh Dt1 rh1.un, ,J ci,g on :s, H 11~it.i
,,t Ba rk .. r t1nd I annah Hale im. Fr RO'\'> (L- O Rl'8: Zs.c.b Greenwood, Dus t.in 'Weatbl'ook, Caleb
Moon~ and J em1ifor- D rhRm.

Each yea r i n Octobe r , .ou t.er and bow to be

1_at.er was scagnant on one

hiousa.nds f p ople t,:Jlunveer ing t.be- cleanup. The

.rd !. le was rewarding to heal'

o ell.!, up r ivers a ll o e r t e-r

Goorgia. 'Ib e e en c ll~d

.

u h appre- the d 1 nkc i;u&KC"t..i<: Ii to
au9e it ,help s,;i,l,e the blockage prob-

Riven Aliv,.i, i pomored by

e.

d p b lem. '.rhe .ids worke d ,,ary

Ute ~.or ia lJ epartme n t f .r fH)

d , '1 he hmd lllt picki g p t.ru h (111d

at.ural Resouroe-!I, fi nd the W0l"

for t he clea.ring. l'ime seemed to go y

Ge orgi,a Derni,rtme n t -of auup

, loo"oo ,:v:ii k ly and befot'a ~ k new ic,

Comm n rt,y Affairs . Rhe ~ r lo g pan wo 1.k H w;us ~111 t r ~u r n trnd. c,L.$..

Alh 's i,ss ion is to c:r u c.~ ves, and cari"

:n lo K pose of t.he rash we h1.td col-

;rw.urooess of and iu vvlvcmont. -i-1,1 11 i llR t, o1~.

ik~d Jected_ .\fo3 of the t'luib me

in be o:re~er ,J1t.i 1n of dow to t.he P owder Sprin :, t . didr~' c wa.rat <t st.OJ>. Ju

Geo-rg i&'R wut r re source . Tl'i' lltG.t/ ' h ie fo . t .. fo~ : C'ln(: ~t1,1d.cn isiaid, we:!

Ge) r in\ L\ un d ant st1c a r'n ~ 1,~~Lw 1i.;li I h ' F. ti

R l ldi

should M his C'r"rJ W . k~ndr

rrnd ri,:crs a.re not m y J:<!,ll,ti- High :(: cho ol on

t P au It jllst got?s t.o show you , ao a-

fu l, but they pir vJclc u with ding Midd le 'cl ~utd co me~ gett i g .11.'A'a> fr om T V,

fi-esh drii1ki nt-:- ,,u,~r as well a. lects run oJ'l:" from

IT ur ,rrr d (kri L~ ;:,cmae h ing th Bt L.

.11'1,1 ny recrea iona.I activ iUc , ing cumm.rnit/. Tb,~ f>ft h w i .!.i ru. aningful to ~rou r omunuoity

We e ed L d1J , ur pan to 1r,u cl d :a ml ~;h( ,wcd -'i ign o f .i~ valued high],'.

e , s 1,1 rr) th lilt ou r watelw~ . ~ riom; et s io ,

Tpo rn~urn i n g eo th '

~ y healt hy :} t"L( 1:, trtifol fol'

St der,L-~ fou t1'1 t vn rtct;y p icki. p 1_a , clu b mem ets

al to enjoy.

,l)f tn1,.h along t.ho pa' h to t 1 .,,,i! r re w n ed wit h Ri , e -s

~feml1 r:s fr om c.he, K p~
f~r : ,,r t C .E:: art.h Club AL E,d;

c rtRe k it..qe lf.

and alon
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re \live l-.shi r . mrl 1>: k i~.:1. T'h 1~y , ,. tal k-d about. rn urn i g fo do

P lll uJdiog .t,. iddl Sch, ,1 fi naJJJ lc~k

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anothe r- cle an u p e. w ell as

ha,d ble:tk fro rn t. e ,:et can~,

t 1.e~ i ng t h e . iolo ic:a l and

,eath,;r 1md were e.b.e t.) par _,,,

c,: , ni 1;., rl l1 c1 11,h cJf l,h(~ ere!(!.~..

t1,:ip t1 in tbe Ri-... r., Al ve Is

T h y left wi E 1cs l)Jl ~h.c.ir

-cleanup m1 urdi, , Nov, rnbel' 2. Club m , bcrs. L' .nging

ordet' LO
.<,, l~k. 'T

; f ee .. bee use t be " h a.d. co -

c

( 1 ke(!ping heir

ill I). ! 1 t o 3 yern-a (I d , Lr r,- ~o

in wat.crw1.1y dc.:-tm a nd 111.nl

Wl.:T'i!' ift'-e,n a br-iefir),.;:' rr . iJ e- e c, eek i s

a. I vi .re1 30n e *hing brc,- ~- ~::.

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Augusta Chronicle August 25, 2002

CHAIS THELEN/STAFF
Local Sierra Club members and community volunteers canoe and kayak down Augusta Canal to pick up trash. About 65 people spent Saturday filling boats with paper, bottles, cans and other trash found in the waterway.
Voluntee clean in boatloads

By Sylvia Cooper
Sta/f Writer
Sake alive! You should have seen what Sierra Club members and volunteers picked up from the Augusta Canal during the Georgia River Alive cleanup Saturday.
Paper, bottles, cans. a box of clothes, fishing corks, bait cup . balls. vehicle tires - so much trash it took a Dumpster to hold it all when the canoeist , kayakers and walker arrived at the boat dock at Lake Olmstead.
"We picked up a lot oftra h today. " said Cindy Annis, the outings leader for th Sierra Club.
"It was surprising. We had lots of old tires. I think everybody had two bags in the canoe."
About 65 people departed from the canal banks at Savannah Rapid Pavilion about 11 a.m. , after Augustan Sam Booher, the chairman of the Sierra Club in Georgia. and his wife. Laurie, signed them up to en ure they will receive their Rivers Alive T-shirts next month.

SIERRA CLUB INFO
The local Sierra Club spearheaded a volunteer cleanup of the Augusta Canal on Saturday as part of Rivers Alive , Georgia's statewide river cleanup program .
The Augusta cleanup was the 1 first such event in the state this
year. To learn more about other Sierra
Club outings and community service, call 863-2324.
Each year, local Sierra Club members clean the canal at least once.
This year, they became the organizing group for the Department of Natural Re ources tatewide River Alive program. Mr. Booher said.
"They've got 116 groups in Georgia that are going to be picking up garbage under the Rivers Alive program this year," he said. "Mo t arc going lo do it in October, which is the sensible time.
"Some are going to do it in September but I thought I would jump off

and be the first. " Mr. Booher invited the public to
attend. and many re ponded. One of them. Chuck Elliott, even
brought two extra kayaks for other people to use.
"My attitude is Augusta is a fanta tic place. and people need to get out and experience the Augusta Canal and see what we have five minutes from downtown Augusta. " Mr. Elliott said. "And you can't do that sitting on your butt in Olmstead Park.
"You need to get out and become a part of the olution vs. dropping a piece of trash and becoming part of the problem.''
Mr. Booher credits th Savannah Waterways Forum with getting the canal. which begins al the lock and dam in Columbia County and ends in Augusta, opened to the public in the early 1990 after it was closed for several years.
"As a result of that. we're now able to do canal cleanups, he said.
Reach Sylvia Cooper at (706) 823-3228
or sylviaco@augustachron1Cle.com.

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Douglas County Sentinel - Douglasville November 3, 2002

Volunteers clean Gothards Creek

Special to the
On S; ,rn la\'. rotunlt.'(.-n; " Afk:-, intt n tribu-
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Dublin-Laurens volunteers to

clean up Oconee as part of

campaign to save waterways

Special to The Courier Herald
Dublin-Laurens area residents will wade inlo the
Oconee in October as part of the continuing tatewide campaign to cl an and preserve Georgia's 70,150 miles of rivers and slreams.
The effort will be pa r t of Rivers Alive, the 11th Annual Georgia River Cleanup, which is expect.ed to once again be the largest single volunteer cf~ fort to beautify Georgia's water resources.
Vol unteers in Dublin-Laurens will stage their cleanup ai 8:30 am Saturday at area boat landings in Lau1:ens County. They will be joining an estimated 20,000 other volunteers s tatewide participating in the Annual River Cleanup. During the month of October over 100 othe r cleanups will collect trash and other debris in streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands from the Coosa River in
<trth Georgia to the Okefeno-

kec Swamp in the outh. "We feel very fortunat.e io be
a part of a community that takes so much pride in iLs recreational faci lities an d resou rces. The Oconee River has been and continues to be an ex celleni fis hery a nd source of recreation for many here in the m idstate," said Leve Brown of
the Dublin-Laurens Counly Recreation Auih ority.
In addition 1,o the Outdoors Section of the DLCRA, the cleanup will also be sponsored by Keep Dublin-Laurens Beautiful, BellSoulh 'l'elephone Pioneers a nd local Boy Scout Troops.
During 200l's River Cleanup, more than 18,000 volunteers cleaned over 650 miles of waterways and removed 120,000 pounds of trash and garbage including refrigerators, cars, furniture and even a kid's bike from the state's waterways, according to Harold Harbert, coordinawr of Georgia's Adopl-AStream . Harbert expects this

yea r' River Cleanu p to involve hundreds more volunLeers and to continue 1,o be the tat.e's largesi volunteer effort to beautify Georgia's water re~ources. The cleanup aims to creat.e awareness of and invo lvement in the preservation of Georgia's water resources.
Corporate sponsors include AT& T, BASF, Beers Sk.anska, Bell South, Canon USA, Clea n Water Campa ign, The Coca-Cola Company, CVS Pharmacy, Direct Access [nternaUonal, GEMC Georgia Magazine, Georgia Pacific, The Horne Depot, International Pa per, Meadwestvaco Coated Board Division , MiJler Brewing Company, Mohawk Ind ustries, Oglethorpe Power Cor poration, Plum Creek Timber Company, Six Continents Hotels, UPS and Waste Management. Contributors to Rivers Alive include Jameson lnns and Ford Moior Company.
See OCONEE page Sa

- Oconee -
Continued from page la
Other s ponsor of t h statewide campaign include: Georgia Adopt-A-Str eam, Georgia DNR Environmental P rotect ion Divi ion, Keep Georgia Beautiful and Affiliate , Georgia D partment of Community Affa irs, Altamaha Riverkceper, BellSouth Pioneers, Col umbu Waterworks/Ox bow Environmental Learning Ce nter, Geoq,ria Forestry om mission, Georgia Wildlife Federation, Lake Lanier Shore Sweep, Peavine Wa.er hcd Alliance, Georgia Proj ect WET/Rive1 of Word, Upper Chat tahoochee Riverkeeper, and USDA Natural Resources onservation Service. Dozen. of other local organization will be sponsori ng in divid u al cleanups around the State.
To volunteer for the local cleanup, contact Steve Brown at 277-5060, Patsy Baker al 272-5162 or Ed Pierce at 272-9046. For more 1 information a bo11t efforts in other areas or the statewide campaign, call 404-675-1636 or go to www.riversa1ive.org

Courier Herald Dublin
October 11, 2002

VOLUNTEERS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT ... (L-r) are Ed Pierce, BellSouth Pioneers; Steve Brown, DLCAA ;
Richard McCoy, Boy Scouts of America; Patsy Baker, Keep Ou::>lin-Laurens Beautiful
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GRILLS AND DEBRIS that were left on the sandbar. The Keep Bainbridge-Decatur County Beautiful hopes to bag
I trash along the river banks on Oct. 19, the organization's annual Rivers Alive Clean-up.
Litterbums make

unwelcome deposits

B, SHERIDA BLACK
- - C0>du.,k, l'\l ll>( :H -M y husband, Gary. and I love to spend weekends and late after-
noons cruis ing the beautifu l Flim River. We,ekday afternoons are o ur
favori te times because the river is
usuall y cal m a.nd free of the nor-
mal, noisy weekend traffi c. 1t wa.<. on one of these. af1cmoons we
s1oppt:d at th e sand bank across the river from Ri ver Chase Subdiv ision. Whenever we cru ise the ri ver we alway~ Lake along a
l'is hing l'lt:l 10 li sh ()ul any debris floa ti ng in the river and garbage
bags with which to haul it off.
On !his particuhtr day. as we picked up uash along the edge of
the sandbank. we began to follow the trail of li1 cer from the water's

edge into the woods. We had never ven[U red much into the wooded area of the sandbank because most of our trips there were for quick, cooling dips in the wate r.
The amount of trash we found there just infuriated both of us ! The li nerbugs had taken t.ime to walk up the sandbar into the woods to dispose of the ir garbage under the willow trees and in the tall rive grnsses near the water 's edge. D o; they thiQk the rain will wash it down the bank and into the ri ver to be carried downstream and lost
forever? Doa 't they rea lize j ust
becau se their trash is out of their irnmcdia te sighL it is st ill out Lhc rc so mewhere littering another spot?
See CLEAN-UP, lOA

-Clean-up

FR ) M PAGE lA

Benha is a hu ge wbe who~e usu al j ob i~ to b< puUed behind a hoai for a wet and excitinf:

11 was d uring this li ttle afternoon outing
we rn,1de plaus to come back and do " real clean -up of the area. For nearly two weeks we planned every availab le afternoon with others to take the pontoon boat out to the sandbar and pick up trash and haul it off. It seemed eve ry planned afternoon wa~ replanned for us by M otbcr Nature when storrn clouds would blow in and the thunde r
would roll. Finally, one afternoon Gary and l (lcc ide-c.l
10 take the jei. ski out and ride over 10 Lhe

time bouncing ovtc:r 1he wakes. On d,i, day however. Big Bertha was going to he our own lillle trash barge as we lo<1tkd her down with bags of garbage from the sandbar_
From a distance, this ~andb,1r is ;1 beauti ful , serene, inviting place. bul ,1p close il:>
another s1ory. Dirt y di ttpcrs wcre a co mmon find along with the usual varie.ty of soft dri 1.1k cans, beer cans and bo u les and cigaretic pac ks.' lt bothers me to know the bad example the ,idu lts .ire setting for the ch ildren h) leaving the ir debris behind. T hey s hould be sell in g a good example for these ch ildren

sandbar. We lo.ided the garbage b11gs, two who w ill no d oub l grow up, use the ri,,er

''liner-gitter'' pick up rods, plastic gloves and the mselves, and continue the ,ame bad

bott led water and headed down 1he river with habits of their pare nK Big Bertha in tow behind the jct ski. Big

On e thing 1ha1 really p11a;lcs me is tlie c.IT011 it llt.kes to break the tllick. brown glas~ of a beer bottle on sand , yet there 1hey [;iy in various i.-pot:s on ihe bank. brol-.cn and shin ing in the sun. How m any broken bonles does it take before we can no longer walk
of barefoot 011 1hc sand'1 Wind and rain-cnn..hide
1J1e gfa ss shards just under the ~urfacc 1ltc.
sru1d and ma ke walking b.trefoo1-eve.n more
hazard ous. Near 1he 1ight end of 1he sandbaJ. just
, behind the first tree line. is a charcoa l grill someo ne. lefl th ere month s ago. We saw chi s grill being used in the pa~t. so WC fdl it had bee n left Llierc for t'uture use, also. Now. however, it is rusted through, lying on its sicle
and ha.<. be.come nn eyesore. r understand and
<1ppreciate being in the great outdoors and

1he flavor of gri ll ed food , but there are small-

er, portablt: grill s. which can be easi ly Lrans-

poned lo and from th e desired grill s ite. Tile

fovd trash le ft a ll around th e grill when i1

was in usable condition was a b ig problem

also.

Now a nother yea r ha , gon e by mid upon

nur last inspecrion of the sandbank it i5 in

need of another good cle,,ning. Sa tu rday.

Oct. 19. is Keep B ai nbridge Dccmur Co unt y

Beaut.iful 's annual Rivers Alive Clean-up

and there will be several dc,-ig natcd areas

amund Lhc counly for cle,m up including the

s<1 od bank.

,

If you arc inte rested in helpiJ1g in thi s

year's clean up conract, LiL Tan nh ausc r at

246-361 1 or Fran ci:s Wi ll.is at 248-2000 for

more informarion.

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!\'uw:; Obseffli.' pholal i:Jri8n K. Fit1n.'cum Members of the Xtreme Teens aJter school program sponsored by Fannin Count)' Family Connaclion participated in the Rivers Alive! cleanup of toe T occou Ri,cr on Sept. 28. Tfle Xtreme Teens helped d ean up lM lowe r seciion of the river from Blua Ridge Dam lo the Tennessee state rine in McCaysville. Saturday's. erfurt remo:eo 8,760 pounds of trash tram nearfy so mi les of river.

Volt1nteers collect 8100 pounds of trash

By BKIAN K. F IN"llf:(f),f lee. and o rgnniz.cr of the

At".JSTJ"''T f o T Ut

K1vcrs A lhc! ~vent, s~id 130

Vc,lt1 n1ee rs for Fannin volunteers workt><.J a 1<.11a l uf

Cou nl y' s K 1vc r s AIi,; c ! 826 hoor.s fur the. eve.no.

cl,~am1p .-,tlnrt wi,rc .-cs pon- 'Oveni.11, in spi te of the

~i hIc for rcmo,'ing 8 ,760 r.hreal of bad weather the

p0lJll.ls ,;.,f lr:,sh from nearly turnout was ~ery good."

50 mi les ato n1:; t he Toccoa Claypool ~uicl.

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On the upper ~cc, ion of

,\-latt Claypool. chu irrmrn 1hc river, upstt'eam frorn

or the Fu r1 11 in C:ounty Blue Ridgt Lake, 83 ~olun-

or Chamber

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er. T hev co ll ected 4, 160 efforts for ,ln ,mnual R i,er.~ Scenic Rail way rai lro11c

pound~ ~f trnsti, enough lo .\live! tota l. Claypool said. p icktlp and highwioy d c:i-

ill three du n jv trucks.

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On the low'.f section. from forw~rded to lhe Tennessee wau is Ctuh ~nd th,e U.S.

the Illuc 1-! idgc Oam 10 llt-e Valley Authority fur use; as Fores t Service conlri but,c to

Tennessee state line. 4i vol- i11-ki11<l matching donation ie iota!. Clnyr,ool ~air!.

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4 .6()0 p on nrl :; of rrn sh , n addition to Sat urcliiy s ha ,c be ~n n:.sponsibk for

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Agroup o1local oLrtdoors enthusiasts will help clean up trash at sites along tilebanks of the Alapaha River, such as the one shown here.

Outdoors enthusiasts to help clean local 'gen1' of a river

By Florence Rankin
lo.rankin@gaflnews.com
TrF'<J'ON - Concerned about
the preservation of one of Tift
County's most beautiful natural
resources, a group of local resi
dents is planning its first-ever river clean-up Oct. 26.
''The Alapal1a is really a gem,'' said Bret Wagenhorst, one of the organizers of the . Tifton Alapaha River Alliance. "You don't hear much about it in rrift Count~~ but it's ranked as one of South Georgia's most extreroely beautiful rivers by pa,clclling magazines.
"rt has a lot of potential for ecotourism, and it's something that should be preserved. It's unique."
The clean-up will be held from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Satur-

day, Oct. 26, Make A Difference Da;i
"There were a couple of us
that read about Georgia Rivers
Alive putting tm a Georgia-wide
event to clean up all of Georgia's waterw[:\ys dm-in.g the
month of Oct.obe1~" said Wagen-
of horsl' . . "A few us who enjoy canoeing and kayaking on the
Alapaha and think it's very beautiful, but getting junky in
places, responded to the ad." A quick visit to one spot
along the Alapaha showed banks strewn with beer and soft drink bott}.es and other trash. Wagenliorst said the group will probably start by
walking along the river's
shores but may use canoes as necessa11(
The statewide event is spon-

sored by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Georgia AdoptA-Stream and Keep Georgia Beautiful, in cooperation with Help the Hootch and River Awareness.
It targets clean-ur,s across all Georgi.a waterways, including streams, rivers. lakes and wetlands, and has the mission of cTeati.ng awareness of m1d involvement with the preservation of Georgia's waterways.
Another area event is planned on t11e same day in Berrien County, where the Dream Menders Environmental Club will clean along the Alapu,
ha. For more information, check
the website at www.r iver salive.org, or call Wagenhorst at 388-9102. Wagenhorst may also be reached by e-mail at bwagcnhorst@)10tmail.com.
To contact city editor Floren~
Rankin, call 382-4321, ext 209.

IANTID
Help to clean up Georgia~ waterways

Georgia has more than 70,100 miles of rivers and streams that need help to stay clean. "Rivers A live: Georgia's Eleventh Annual River Cleanup, stands poised to do just that - but they need your help.
While the statewide cleanup is not scheduled to
happen until October 2002, cleanup organizers and sponsors are needed now.
The mission of "Rivers Alive is to create awareness of and involvement in the preservation of Georgia's water resources. This year's event is expected to be the state's largest single volunteer effort to beautify Georgia's water resources.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) encourages sportsmen's clubs, civic groups, church groups, businesses and interested citizens to organize a cleanup in their area
"The River Cleanup is one of the most important events in this state," said Harold Reheis, Director of DNR Environmental Protection Division. "Not only do we remove thousands of pounds of debris from the rivers, but we educate and inform the citizens of

Georgia about the importance of maintaining our river systems."
During the 2001 River Cleanup, more than 18,000
volunteers participating in 100 local cleanups
re-
moved 120,000 pounds of trash and garbage from state waterways. The goal for this year is to have
125
local cleanups with more than 20,000 volunteers.
The Rivers Alive board has made organizing a cleanup easier by including everything needed on their
website -www.riversalive.org. Items that can be found
include a registration form for event organizers, a river cleanup guide booklet, maps and detailed contact information so that volunteers can find your event and links to your cleanup information from the Rivers Alive website. In addition, there is a long list of cleanup organizers that can provide assistance.
To volunteer to organize alocal cleanup effort or to obtain more information about the statewide campaign, call 1-888-373-5947 or
go to www.riversalive.org.

News Leader Royston August 22, 2002

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The Georgia Magazine December 2002
31

More than 100 clean river

By Rip Prine rClf prino@ga11news.o:im
TALDOSTA - More than 100 volun1 1" participated in the Rivers Alive Annual Cle nup on Saturday and made
a differnnce on 'Make A Difference
Day" in Lowndes County D pite damp cond itions, volunteers
from Rivers Alive'worked undaunt.ed. They worked in three areas, including the Little River at Barber Park, wher

volunteers worked with the cit.y of altlosta 'onmnmity Development.
D partment and Weed and Se d and a
student orga nization known a. S m::
(S tudents A ainst Violating the Environment) that cleaned up the stream runni ng through Valdosta State Universil); said aron SLTickland, di rector of Keep Lowndes/ Valdosta Beautiful.
Please see CLEANUP, page 4A

Valdosta Daily times October 27, 2002

rooAv'sLOCALNEWS

Sunday, October 27, 2002

Continued from Page 1A
Cleanu

'1'11 biggest of these cleanups was at Lit-

tle River, where, lat ye.ar, trickland and
other vollmteers picked up 10 tons or

garbag hat had acc:wnulated in the area.

Unfortunately, in just a year' time, h tween

three and four tons of garbage had b n de-

posited back in the area. 'l least it's not as

bad as las yem;" , trlckland aid.

'It' a hame it took one year to put

hree or four tons of trash and garbage

back on the ground," said Herb Ivfason, a

th ird- ear Riv rs Alive volunteer.

Saturdav's clean up at Little River also

provide a liliJe e itement when a lock box

was round that contained bottles of pre-

scr iption medication ancl a .25-caJiber pis-

tol, Strickland aid .

Piul Leavy/The Valdosla Daily Times
CLEANUP: Aaron Strickland, left, Keep LowndesNaldosta Beautiful director and vol un eer Edwin Brunot toss bags of garbage co llected by volunteers at he Little River site into a Dumpster. The garbage wa s

Thebox ,vas lbund by one of the volunteers, Dudley Johnson. 'r <lont know what to think of it." ,Johnson said. "It's U1e most intere ting find so far toda~i"
'!'his i the th ird year of cleanups for
Johnson a drummer with Ll1 'band "SOcial
Actions." He derided to be part of the

collected Saturda~r along thebanks and trails cleanups three yea rsago at Sugar reek

alor1g the Lit leRiver off of St. Augustine and tries lo make il a yearly thing wilh h -

Road, and was part of heannual Rive

two sons.

Alive cam paign.

"Ifs a chance to get outdoor: c1nd enjoy

natm and help ecologj; Johnson said. "lt teaches y sons good environmental values.''
Jolrn~on's son weren'l the only ones influenced by him. Mandy Carte1; a Department of Defense civilian with the 347th Services guadron, and her husband, Tech. Sgt. Rick carte1~ 347th Re. cue Wing, Moody . ir orce Base, ,, er there b cause of him. Johnson i their be t friend and a fellow musician, he said. lt was their fir t y ar hei.ng involved in the cleanup, he said.
"We're aU fellow m ician helping Aaron out - mak.i.n a difference: Carter saicl.
The Carters were J)al.i of about 50 people from Mood involved with tl1e cleanup. 'taff Sgt. Anthony Wallis, 347th Logistics Readine. s Squadron, was involved in hj second year with River Alive. H enjoys the com immily involvement and seeing cliITerenl peopl hi~lpi.ng each otJ1er keep the environment clean.
ri1e is a lot of ded ication from the Moody lolk ,'' Ma on said. "They have shown U1 y are part of thi communll):..
The Little River- dcanup l' the second largest cl nnup done ammally by Ke p Lowndes/ Valdosta Beautifu l, Strickland said. The largest i the Great Ameri can 'Jcanup h ld in th pring, h aid.
To conlact reporter Rip Pri ne
pleasecall 244-3400, ext. 237.

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lbout 36 concerned citizens volunteered to help clean up the Apalachee Beach. he group hauled off nearly a Ion of trash Aug. 17. [Submitted photo]

iver cleanup

eemed a success

At least one river's banks were live Aug. 17 as the Oconee County lean and Beautiful Commission orked for hours. The OC&BC cleaned up palachee Beach for part of the nnual Rivers Alive Clean-up Day. About 36 concerned citizens, from a.m. to 1:30 p.m ., waded through ash at the beach, ultimately haulg away nearly a ton of trash. OC&BC Executive Director John
cNally said the group did an xcellent job and even had some Jnlikely help from three teen-age
ys camping at the beach . Also here to help were someone from the .ocal Environmental Protection Division and the Department of atural Re ource .
''We were real pleased ," McNally ;aid. "Not only at the turnout, but jt was nice having someone from the tate and local EPD and they orked , too! "
The group of volunteers hauled way a lot of bottles and 60 pounds f aluminum can . Some of the big-

ger items included a refrigerator and a rusted hot water heater.
The OC&BC goes to the beach about every six months and every time, there's plenty of trash to pick up.
"I keep hoping sometime we go down, there won't be anything to do," McNally said.
However, during this visit the group discovered a trash can at the shoa ls area of the Apa lac hee. It was overflowing, but the fact that people seem to be trying to keep the trash contained is a good sign , he said.
"I think we might be getting the word out," McNally said. "That's a po itiv<! step. "
The beach area was still full of tra h, though. McNally said keeping the Apalachee Beach litter free is very important since its a water hed for the Apalachee River.
Several residents who li ve near the beach area pitched in , too.
"We did have a good citizen turno ut ," he said. "That was the best we' ve had ."

Evans 4-H'ers participate

in Rivers Alive Cleanup

On Saturda1,, Qctobe 26,

the EYa1'l> C-0~ty 4-H Club

gathered "'ith Mandy Sapp,

F:var s

County

Code

Enforcement Officer, at the

oc-ks Bd dge P ck Oil t e

Canoochee RiYer to do a

iver'5 Alive leanup. Kri tin

agcr was the chairperson for

this pmj t and !!he organi7..ed

tht: group. H3iley Winters,

Cry5tal McCorkle, Bl:'$sy tewili,

;\nd forgm Ca~teen helped

K1isH1 1,Hh thit- proj l. L.,c~
Toothman and Michael l'rabul5y joined th group for th.is commt y s-cndc@ projcct. When all the work was fini.h , 25 bags of tr.ts h; d b('<!h coJJected.
Stormv Brn ch do ated twtl Shumard Oaks for the student~ 10 pla1111 a$ part of t11eJ.r beautif.iccltion project. 'fheir support of the Evans ount. -H Prog:rnm .1lways appied.ate~.

Claxton Enterprise November 7, 2002

Oconee Enterprise August 29, 2002

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Cleaning up the river
Pat Lincoln and Elaine Lee of the Tri-City Council Georgia Pioneers Chapter 124 working hard to clean up along the shore of the Ch at tahoochee River at the Whitesburg Bridge. River Alive is an ongoing volunteer effort of the Pioneers every year to help keep Georgia's environment clean. "Georgia Bell South Telephone P ioneer is an organization who cares and work at educational, community and
nvironmental project y ar round. Th ~y ar made up of acttv and r tired Bell outb employ e
Local w<>r k t!!I r mad up <>f th Tri lty CouncU,

Times Georgian Carrollton Novemberl7,2002

KBB holds first 'Rivers Alive' cleanup

Special to the Herald

The Keep Bulloch

Bea ut iful Commi sion held a

cleanup of a portion of Lotts

Creek recen 1ly, its fir-t effort

as pan of th e state- wide

Ri vers Alive I anu p cam

paign.

Abo ut 12 volunteers from

Pi Kappa. Alpha fraternity a l

Geo rgi a Southern Uni versilY ,,

participated in th e clea nup,

coll ecting more th a n 200

pou nds of tras h, several tires

and one traffic sign from the

stre1ch of creek crossed by

Georgia Highway 46,

The vo lunteers did a

great job. and we re rea l!

plea ed with 1h re. ults of

thi cleanup." said Vicki Cou nty's waterways, S11111h Smith Davis, executive direc- Davis said . tor of K ep l:lul loc h "'ThL , m,1 11 cleanup 111,10

B autiful. The bulk of the li n er
along th quaner mil e st retch of er k wa beverage

a good tri,11 run. and having a single group in\'ol\'ed made it n easier to sched ul e vol u111t!e1s. We hopt.' 1h,11

con tainers, both cans and next year we will ha\e sc\rr

bottle , but a few unusua l al group cleaning up differ-

items, such a an old cowboy ent a re;i ,1 long our creeks

boot, were also collected.

and on the Ogl'l'rh

Keep Bulloc h Beau ti ful River. "she s.iid.

worked wi th Canoochee "' The biggest complica ion

Riverkecpe rs. based in in cheduling a w.11er

Swainsboro. 10 organize the cleanup b ,;iccess to th cleanup. Lolls Cre k is a wate rway, ,1nd we apprcd 111.'

tributary of the Canoochee Lower Lott C1l'ek l'rin111ive

River.

Bap1ii-t Church allowing u:

Keep Bul loch Beau ti ful to, get to the creek 1I rou gh

hop s to see this eve111 grow

property." Rivers 1\liVl' is ,1n annual state-wide cleanup 01 Ji vers and s1rea 111;. sponsored by 1h Georgia DepJ 1tme111 of ,11Ural Resources, Georgia AcloplASt1ea m Progr,1m , Gcor ia Dep.irtmem ol Ollllll Unitv Affair~ ,lllcl Keep GN1rgi.1 Bc,1u iful. The 111 1s-

Spec,al Photo

Members of Pl Kappa Alpha fraternity pose with the more than 200 pounds of trash they collected Saturday in Keep Bulloch Beautiful's first Rivers Allve cleanup on Lotts Creek.

sion

Rivers

Alin' is 10 creare awareness

oi and promote involvement

in the pre crvalion oi

G orgia' water resources .

Orgc1nizer-; hope co involve

more than 70.000 volu111ecrs

in ,ipproximatel\ I 2S

clt.inup$

hroughout

Georgia.

Statesboro Herald October 22,2002

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Eatonton Messenger August 22, 2002

i"tlolMr,.,OO,.,IW:tirSON lll,Jnkll'I~
\!though Lake Oconee is arguably the most beautllul lake in Georgia - and even the Southeast :areless littering and dumping do mar some areas of 1t - including the heavily used public fishing area
tween Sunset Realty and Jerry's Bait and Tackle just off the Lake Oconee Parkway Janet Pearson splays an old wine bottle she found at the site Saturday (above). Old bait containers, concrete bloci<s nd even discarded furniture rest halfsubmerged around the site. A sign warning litterers of a $1 ,000
lne, In background, (below) appears to do little to stop the law breakers.
leanup Slated

cleanup campaign on Oct. 5. Pnnicipa111~ y,tl) v~I by boJl, canoe, kayak and on t. picking up trash in the lake und tts feeder creek.,;.. Rivers Alive, a s1ruewide cleanup :ampaig.n tor Gcorgins rivc:.1s. lal t,\ nd str am~ supponcd by Gov. Rny amcs fo r promoting ci ti zen volvemcnt in protecting 1,1,,ah.-. rways. is sponS(lrcd locally by the Lake Oconee Prope rt y Owners !--SOciation. Gcorg i;l PoWcr und 1hcr area busrncs1:1cs a.re ulso sup rting 1hc event lhrough don:ition.'i f muncy, food. :rnd supplies, Clean-up par1i ipnnts will receive a free Rivers Alive 2002 T-J,.hir1.
unch and sou\.cmr tnnlcts. all proidcd by local and iatewide !>J>UO ors in appreciation fo r 1heir t-rv1l'c to the curnmum1 y. "T1 ash BingC'I.. m a t.rash scavenger hunl are po- ible activities for ~my youth who par111;i-
.1te in the e ve nt Accvrding to Jimet Peari:.on. prescn1 of the Lake onec Propcny

Owntrs' Associrui on, !hi ') C\/l'nl prom1-.es to be biggc1 th:m dcanups in lhc- pa ~1. Pear on. who i,; a

cleanup veteran since 1999 when the campaign firs1 bcg:m. 1o..1id lhat previously they hove cleaned nl>ove th~ lake on the Oco nee Rwcr nnd on the dam bci.ween L.ike Oconee and Lake Sindair, 1ravding b)' can~s and kay,ll,,s. 111is ycur the purticipan11- wi ll tac kle La ke Oconee. expanding 1hcir transportulton me.ins 10 include motor boats and
wolk.ing . 11,c amount of arcn cove red in
the c leanup will dc~n<l upon 1he number of pa.rti c1 pams. Pearson said. In 1hc past, the cleanup pan1cip1..rn1s ha ve mainly inch1ded mcmbc1s of Lah Ck:onec Property Owner. AS:tCk:iauun. but P("ar;on 1. inviting :myonc who \ ants to get in,olved 10 do so by contac tmg her. Alrc,1dy 1he l("ICal Boy Scout und Gu I Si.:oul group... ha\'e pl~dged themse lves to the event.
" I would hope to gel olher people in Lhc com muni ty involved.'" Peat'ion s:ud "The lake' an unportanl re ource. Whether tht'y live on the laJ..c or not they sliJI lc.t' 11.

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All sorts of garbage blankets the shore o f Lake Oconee a t a popular public fish ing spot off Lake Oconee Parkway. Votunteers an now being sought fo r a cieanup event there .

Lake........................................................................................................................................................,_____ ,rrom Page

Pc3rson involvement in the e\Cn t txgan with a concern for w:iter isc::ucs in genera l. She said, ''The lake' s so impor1un1 lo all of u.s in lh1 s commu1111y. Ii' becoming a scarce cC1nunodi1y, particularly for future genera 1i on If we don't tukc care of 1hc "'-Oler now. fu lun gencr:H1t1ni. will have serious i:.!>UCS 10
dc11\ with.' Pc.uc::o n hopes 1hat 1he C\C! III will rai se
awru-tness of 13.Le issues, while being a fun way 10 ~nd 1he afternoon. M\Vc want 10 make kid s awurc of w hat hn ppl'IIS to lht wate r i:upply when lrn<:h is dumped into it.
AccorJing 10 1hc Ri vers All\e Web ~lie, p:1n1c1pan15 have riddcd Gcorgio"s watc:r wavs of tire~. can.1, papers , pla-.t1r~, scrnp

me tal. boll lt:S. furoi1urc , 1c1!nis baJI~ ond dis carded ve hic les. In 200 I 1he siatc\\ ide campiugn cleared 662 mi lt.! s nnd co ll ccled 117,999 pounds of giu bagc.
During lhc mo nth of Oc1obcr. over JOO other cleanups will be he ld acros lhe -.1a1c. An cs1ima1id 20.000 \'1Jluo1cers Sl3tcwide wi ll gath er trash aml olher debris in 1:trc.1111.s.
rivers. lalr..c and wet lands. ''Not onl} 1i. this C\'tlll a worthwhile u.11y
m spe nd a ouple of h1,.111rs. but i1 is 11lso rtwardmg IO be part o f th e soluti o n: Pearson said. (L"s a grc ai way to gc1 10 know people who ca re about the i:ttmc 1hiug.$ )'OU do ..
The l..akc Oconee He m ,s 111111 in need of

local sponsors IA 111mg 10 donate tras.h bi gloves. water, insect repcllan1, sunscn rri7ls and 1rinkc1s. lunch and llnnks. fim kits or any1hing d sc rc levan1 lo the c1m<:1
Pe11rson a.skc-d 1hal anyone who knowi :rny areas around 1hc la.le 1hat rk!Cd spc aucnllon du1ing the cle.tnup let her knov those loca1 1o ns. 'Ott.' ptlrticip:.mt~ \\j\l he 1 10 <"llan those areus.
To register for part1c1pa11on an lht' I. 0.-onec Ri ,crs Ahw 2002 cleanup 0 1 make a dona1io11. con1ac1 Jnncl Pearso1 (706) 485-4090 or cmail her nt jcp@m spnng com. Fo r more in fomuttion at Rners h\.t , \ ISll 1he Web SIIC v.-ww.r i v c rsa l ive.urg.

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Columbus Ledger Enquirer
October 13, 2002

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of Columb u s
picks up pieces of brown glass
on the Rive rwalk
(or the annu al Help
lb Hooch cleanup
Saturday morning. Hayne was
with a group of women &om the booster club for the Columbus
Cotton mo ut h s.

Hooch helpers

CO LU~! 8 'S LEDGER ENQUIRER

Annual cleanup
gathers strength
BY JIM HOUSTON Staff \Vril,,.
T housands of volunteers scoured the lakeshores, creeks and Chatt ah ooc h ee Ri ver ba nk s in Columbus, P he nix City a nd Por t Benning on Friday and Saturday. collect ing tons of trash as part of the annual "Help lhe Hooch River Cleanup.
Exactly how many tons of trash we~ plucked fro m t he stream s a nd their slopes won't be known fo r a couple of weeks, said William Kent of Columbus Water Works. But with al least 10,0<!0 volunteers. it's u-oin~ to make a b1g

These small pieces of brown g)aM att harmful to wildlife that may mistake ii for food.
diffe rence in how the community looks an d how it feels about itself, he said.
"For the past few years, our volunteer numbers have been up, but the to nnage

"For the past few years, our volunteer numbers have been up, but the tonnage has been lower, which tells us we're having an impact."
win,- Keat, Coh,ml,us Waler Works
has been lower, which tells us we're hav-
ing an impact," Kent said.
People are thinking before they toss their tra.'111 onto the roadsides, or along streams, which means there's less to
See HOOCH. Page C3

,..,.,\,,.ledger Clil)tnrcr.<.'<.>ml ncn-,;

HOOCH INumbers boast area's involvement

From CI

Members oft

commu.nily

pick up than when Help the Hooch began eight years ago, h said.
Natalie Hess, 16, of Shaw High School was a mong almost lwo dozen classmales picking up trash along the
hauahoochee Riverwalk behi nd the Columbus Civic Center. She sa.id her participation ha! made her more aware of the harm that litter can do, and !he need to pick up titler when she spots it - although ~he'. not a fanatic about it.
"It' not like everywhere I go, I look for trash," Natalie

surro unding th e Chattahoochc River gather Salurday lo participate in the annual Helt th e Hooch. designed to clean paper. plas tic, cigarette butts, g!Bss nnd other
trash from the areas surro undinF( tht: rive r.

said. "It's not like I'm 'Trash

Girl .'"

Shaw jence leacher Patricia Spenard, who has vol un leered for three years to help thf school's cleanup crews, said every year she sees the same kind of trash along the riverbanks and s lream s soda bottles, fishing liue, bottle caps, beer cans, food wrappers and pieces of Styrofoam.
"This year I pi ked u p a

Mauy of the schools, includ ing Shaw. award community
ervice points lo those who volun teer. which help on students' college application . Some teachers also award extra lass credit, allhough that 's u p lo t he individua l teacher. Spenard said.
T he idea is to en o urage stud ent to participate in

Help U1 Hooch lo close lo 11,000 !his year - and up to 14 .000 ,111ending the Walers hed Fes tival at Columbus tale University - shows thal the people of Columbus and Phenix City care about their communi ty.
The slate of Geo rgia last )'Car had 18.000 volun teers for cleanup proje ls, and 14,000

s,1id.
K ent !;a i d co mp anies throughoul the community s ponsor the annu al cleanup driv , with many donating merrhandi e and in-kind eq uipm e nt, and about $10,000 12,000 for T-shirts and other items for the drive and 1hc festival thal followed.

lire," Spenard said.

projects !h at ar good for their of 1hose were from the Colum-

The large t volume of trash commw1ity, she said.

bus art'a, Kent said.

Conlacl Jim Houslon

along the !Uverwalk wa found Kent said 1he growth from "I think that says a lot about al (706) 571-8566 or

beneath the brid~ s. she said. 500 volunteers the Grst year of the people who live here." he Jhouston ledger-enquirer.com

36

Statewide ~Rivers Alive'

cleanu,p-. progr8m this .month

Oct~. 19 clean.up scheduled for

Swe.etwater Creek State Park

-

.

By Sheila Ervin

}".,.lures Editor

With the a nn n~I ".Rivers Alive pl'Ql{ram

>'<l':heduJed for ~ monLh, organizers pre seeking

volunteera to help

(lea~ ~ 70,1:jO

m1 lei

<>f

riv s and

strekma

statewide

an<l

Ill'!/!

ask.i.ng local

.residents tu

hdp wilh Do\iglais County wat.el:',ayi;,. The. ''Ri:..,ers Ali,e-'' effort targets
cleanups acro!l8 all w11terwaya in the Oe<.ltia inctud.mg streams, rivers, lakes
and Weiland;. Its ltW!Sion is lo create
awareness of and iwrntvement in the
preservation of Geor gia'11 wat~r
resoi.m::f!I.'!. Hinc,e it.'I inc,ept:ioo, Lhe tm.1gram h,.,i~.
been very suocc..~ful in helping rid Georgiu's wul=wa)'E of trash a:nd dehrL"- ft
has been especially i;mce6afuJ in Sweet, water C!'eeic and Dog R(ver in Doogh.~s Co1.mtJ~
..I'll.is is l'.l sUJ.tcwidr;: fil\(mt and e,erv-
one in Geori,,ia is asked to contsct lo.:~
groups who are apon

soring this program and i:;et involved in

Cl

helping dean ,m l l<x::;; I ,lit1xw,1Jis," .s,ud Bill Cahill. willi Friend:; of' Swc-C'twa ter Creek Stut13 PW'k Inc.

0 :.:::
('J..Q....
Pl

The Friend~ of Swetw:;iter Cree k St.at.e Park, in (:r,nper.Bti<,n wi t h lhc.

VJ
n

Geotf,i;:i Depanmcnt. of Nutu rnl Rciloun::c::., have i;che dule d s River11 Alive cleanup for Oct, 19 Sweetwat<:r
Creek State Par k il', Jjthif, 81:,iirlB"'

0
a 0:.:::
/j
.-t- '-<: 0 Cf)

' ::r. ~T he river d ea.nup i,~ OU(' of tbe meoet
importanL cvuul..S ir1 Llili; atal,; ," DNR

~cr' ~(1)

Environmental Protection Division

Dirnck>r Harold Hehei!'l gai,d in a p1e ~

' N

~ (1)

relea.:;.e. "Nat on ly dn we remove thou 0 ......

i;~nds of powvls or dc l>l'is from t.ho MV<':h$, tml we C<.h1t:;;il,,3 nnd inform the

01
N Cl

citJzeru, of Gcort,n aoout the impotiance of ma intatning our river syitt~m., ."
Vohant:eera rnte re!>l:ed in hclpill~

0
:.:::
o.3..
Pl

with the 1i\e1 deMup in S.v,.,ctw,t r Creelc State Pnrk .!ue a:;ked to
eai:w,;:k in at th e park Dfike Rt the

V<.........J........

Trails ParlciJig Lot betw~,en .S-9 r,..m.

(1)

ParticipaJ1fa ~ hou l<'I c11.,.,,..,. i" work

ing attii-e .ind bring gJo.,-c-.;;. if pos:;i

bk.

For information a bout vohmteei-

ing for tJ1e cleanup in 8w,;;,,tw:1 t.ct

Ci-eek St..'lt,e P.:ir"k call Park Nahtt,'1

i st Dun Sc...J'brollgh NL 770-732-

5871 or Bill Ca:hil] at 77G-!.J.12.-

~565. For other Hiven:i Alive

clean-u p prn1,r;im;, in no,iglas
C.ou.:ncv call J.-irucs Bd l ,,l 770-

The Times - Gainesville October 13, 2002
Volunteers hunt for trash on Lanier's shores

River cleanup
Pictured above from left, Ruth Chandler, Lloyd Gayton Priscilla Killingsworth and Virginia Sanford chat with Fo rest Park resident Jerry Clark who stopped to th ank them for their efforts to clean up the Flint River in the Georgia 11th Annual River Cleanup on Saturday Oct 5. Below Pike County Kiwanis Club members Gayton, left, andWalker Chand ler prepare to launch a canoe used in the river clean4p at the David Knott bridge on the Flint River.

Pike County Journal & Reporter - Zebulon October 16, 2002

Tom Reed The Ti w~

Dave Dorham , of the Gwinne County Adop-A-Streo ri group, stDcks

trashin o Dumpster on S.O urdoy at Lake Lanier Islands. Do,ham WO$ o vol-

unteer for Trash ' Treasure Hunt 2002, on event thot encouraged volur>-

eers o clean vp lo e Lanier. Tra sh wos collected and dro pped off ot one

of 10 sites around lhe lake. A par and drawings for a variety of prizes of

38

lake Lanier Islands followed.

I

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IIlill ... n-i-"lllfflR -'"~Ji ~9111.o:~o,11\1!- ,~.l,_s;eo:~f-..:at~,t'i..,.,,,

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15
--

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5

80 50 +

5

-- - ---- - . -

- - ---

1500
-- - - -

- 1--0- -- --

I Dream Menders, Berrien High School

Alapaha

30

4 21 bags and 0

2,300

1

78 tires

- - .-

BSA Troop 705

Alcovy River

15

60 30

0

450

0.5

I Georgia Wildlife Federation, Alcovy River Keep Covington/Newton & Yellow

Beautiful, Keep Walton

River

115

475 4

0

60

22

I Beautiful, Junior Bass Busters Club, Newton High School Environmental Club,

Eastside High School
I Naturalist Club, Troop 12 & Pack 102, Troop 1827, St.

Augustines Catholic Church,

I & BellSouth Pioneers Keep Walton Beautiful, BSA Alcovy River

- - --
45

225 50 plus huge

850

2.5

705, Georgia Wildlife

and tnbutaries

chunks of

I Federation, Keep Covington/Newton

Styrofoam, tires, lawn

Beautiful

chairs, shoes,

I - Baxley Wilderness Institute Altamaha

-
14

bar-r-els -

--

48 100

2

--
1500

--1

--- -

- -- -

I Altamaha Riverkeeper

--- - ---- - --

--

----

Peachy Clean

River - -- ----
Altamaha
Riv-e-r
Altamaha

- - -- -- -- --

--- - -- --- 40
- - ---- .. - 40

--- - ---
240 225
- -- -- 125 23

--- ---- -

-

-- - ---

--

.. -

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3375

10

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--

0

350

4

-- -- -
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River -- JC - -- --- -- - - - La~~ing _____ - --- ----

TRI-COUNTY BAPTIST AMICALOLA

21

31.5 775

. ---- 12

- . --- - 14649

-4

- - -

I CHURCH

-

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R- I-V- ER--Apalachee

--

- -- ----- -36

-

--- - - - --- ....

180 0

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--

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4000

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River

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Southeast Climbers

Boat Rock

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-- ... -- ------- -40
----
19

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. ---

80 30
-

--

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0

90

0

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2860

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Beautiful,

-- -- Lak...e. Broad River,
South Fork

---
114

- - - - -- -

---

852 0

0

--

1185

19

Troop 103, Burnt Fork

I Watershed Alliance

-

-

Fulton County Water

Burnt Fork Creek
. - --- --
Camp Creek

Quality Program, Upper
I Chattahoochee Riverkeeper

28

100 0

3

6000

1

- --

-- -

---

60

2000

2

4000

0.5

I

39

D

0

Canoochee Riverkeeper, Keep Bulloch Beautiful, Keep Emanuel Beautiful,

Canoochee River, Lotts Creek

16 76

0

1140

3

0

Citizens to Save Candler County, Lake Primitive Baptist Church, Phi Kappa Alpha, EARTH Club (East Georgia College), Boy Scouts Troop #205, Georgia Southern University

D
0

Recreation Club, Evans County Environmental

D

Education and Code

Enforcement, Evans County

n

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Coosa River Basin Initiative Cedar Creek

50

100 0

0

340

0.25

and Cave Spring_Elementary _______ _

Chattahoochee

14

42 30 bags

0

900

trash, 20

tires, 1 stove,

1 air

conditioner

part of a

LJ transformer
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10

30 55

0

Pioneers_ - Tri-City_S:ou_n~~-1

Friends of the Upper Chattahoochee

Chattahoochee

38

175 25

0

375

3

0

-- ---- -----

Georgia Environmental

Chattahoochee

43

43 4

0

80

1

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Fnends of McIntosh Reserve; Chattahoochee

15

0 28

0

420

2

Sertoma Club of Carrollton; around

independents

McIntosh Reserve

0

Georgia Exotic Pest Plant Council, Chattahoochee River National Recreation

Chattahoochee River

36

720

0

400

,NA

D

Area

-- - - - - - - - - ... ------- ---

Keep South Fulton Beautiful, Chattahoochee

75

PEQ Chigger Ridge Farm, River

Let's Go Fishing, Georgia

Power, DNR, Fulton Co.

Police & Fire Departments,

Peachtree City Water

Authority, Army Corps of

Engineers, The Riverkeeper,

Fu Ito~_ ~o. Adopt-A-Str':~~

------ --- --------
300 NIA

--- - . -------

-- ----- --

NIA

NIA

Went down

12 - 15 miles.

0

n
LJ

0

Keep Sandy Springs North Chattahoochee

500

900 0

0

4,480

4

Fulton Beautiful, Keep

River

LJ

D 40

I

I ~~~-~~-~

I Roswell Beautiful, Chattahoochee Nature Center, Keep Alpharetta

I Beautiful, UPS

-

----

----

Upper Tallapoosa

--- ----

\Y_atershec! Group - - -- -
I The Coca-Cola Company, Keep Roswell Beautiful,

Keep Sandy Springs/North

Chattahoochee River
Chattahoochee River

--

-- ---

10

30 65

- --

---

100

800 32

-
0
--
0

--
1100

..

-

480

---' -
1
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10

-
. .

I Fulton Beautiful

-

...

BellSouth Northwest Metro

Pioneers Council & Club

-- -

...

I Heard County 4-H --- -- ---- -- -

Upper Chattahoochee

I Riverkeeper, Fulton County Adopt-A-Stream, EPA

Region IV, Aquascape

Chattahoochee

River

-.

--.

Chattahoochee

River

--- - -

----

Chattahoochee

River near

Morgan Falls

Darn

22

110 9

0

-- - -
15

45 9

. ..
0

-
52

. ----

--- -----

104 50

0

135

---

--

2

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..

----

135

1

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2000

- . - - -----
1

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I Environmental, GA Power -National Park Service

Chattahoochee River, Island

30

102 20

--

0

115

6

I

Ford, Vickery Creek, Powers

Island and

I -.Little River Valley Assn.; Birmingham Hopewell

Pac..e-s Mill Chicken Creek

- -- -
75

- -
240 130

.. . --
0

. -
4500

---
3

Alliance; Adopt a Stream;
I Ro~well_ Recy~li~g Center .. Shaw Industries, DaltonWhitfield Regional Solid
I Waste Management Authority, Dalton Utilities,

- --- --
Conasauga River, Tributary to Tar Creek

- - - -- -----

--- ---- - - -

-- .

144

446 153

..
0

---

- -- ----

-.

2295

2

Keep Dalton-Whitfield

within

I Beautiful, The Nature Conservancy, Conasauga

Lakeshore Park, Dalton

River Alliance, Dalton Public

I Works, Whitfield & Murray County Governments, Dalton State College

I Environmental Club

--

-- - -

-

BellSouth Pioneers - Rome

I

--- ---

Georgia Perimeter College,

I The Decatur Campus Science Club (Swamp

--- - ----

-

Coosa

Coosa River@ Lock and Darn Park

Doolittle Creek

-- --

...

- - - . - - --

..

207

880 0

1

2000

5

. . ..

-

13

46 12

0

360

0.25

30

45 81

0

1215

1

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0

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KEEP EFFINGHAM

EBENEZER

BEAUTIFUL, EFFINGHAM CREEK, PART

30

350 70

0

1050

6

COUNTY BOARD OF

OF

COMMISSIONERS,

SAVANNAH

BACKWATER

RIVER

EXPEDITIONS,

INTERNATIONAL PAPER ..

World Class Leaming

Etowah River

Network

-

-

-

Etowah Water & Sewer

-
Etowah River

Authority, Upper Etowah

River Alliance, Townley

Construction, Dawson Co.

- -- .. --

--
19
12

18 0
...
40 0

1

2000

-

--

2

4000

7

-

-- -

1.5

Middle School, Mill Creek Environmental
--
Southeastern Windstar

. -
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.. -- - - - -

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-

6

20 19

0

285

1

Connection City of Gamesville/Hall

- . --

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Flat Creek and

--

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72

7 24

- - --

--

0

-- -
250

----
3

County Adopt-A-Stream Limestone

Program --

Creek . -

---

-

--

.. -

-- -- -- .

- - --

Coweta Adopt-A-Stream Flat Rock,

100

400 175

2

2625

2

Wahoo Creek,

Mountain Creek, RL

- - -- --

--- Smit!' eark .. ----- - -

Albany Audubon society Flint River

- -
27

--

--- .

54 0

.. -
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------ --

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Bellsouth Pioneers of

Flint River

-- - - ----10

.. -
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- --- - - -
0

-- - -

-

700

5

c;~orgicl_ . .. ___ .. ____ -

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Keep Bainbridge-Decatur Flint River

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250 0

-- - --
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0 0 0
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- --- -

--

-. --- --- --- - ---

-

300

500 0

- . - -- ---
1

- . - -
1500

----
1

Beautiful

-- --

-

- ----

. --

--

-

Keep Pike Beautiful

Flint River,

50

--

...

150 20

- - -- - ..... -
0

----- --
300

-- -- --
2

Potato Creek,

- -- ---

---- --- -

Elkins Creek -- . ------

--

--

- --

--

-

------ -

.. -

Roswell Lions

Foe Killer

16

48 1 dumpster 0

2000

2

Creek
-. -
BSA Troop 745, Douglasville Gothards

..
22

load

--

-

. --

75 30

0

450

0.5

Ward 3 City Councilman Creek

Henry Mitchell, Avalon

Home_s, Fort~ess ?torage
-- - -

-- ---- ---

----

--

Cub Scout Pack 380

Harris Shoals

44

1100

..

---

0

.. - ---
419

. . ---
0.3

Creek

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42

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---

--

-

BellSouth Pioneers - Rome

I Darton College Adventure Club, The Flint River

Hawkins Creek
Heath Creek
Kinchafoonee Creek

22
- -- 2
11

80
.. - - - -47
60 30

0
...
0 0

2,400
--- - -
210 -
450

1

--- --

--

0.25 ----

2

Outpost, Albany DNR-

I Environmental Protection Division, The Parks at Chehaw

I Keep Crisp Beautiful

. -

--

Keep Toccoa-Stephens

Lake Blackshear
-
Lake Hartwell

23

-

-.

49

57 38
-- - -
196 16

-

0

400

0.5

0

240

7

I County Beautiful, Camp Toccoa, Blue Ridge Outdoor

Education Center

--

--- --

--

-- - ---- --

. -

I Girl

S--c--out

S--ervice-

U- n-it

619 -

.

Lake Horton
. - ----- ---- -

Lake Lanier Association

Lake Lanier

LOPOA (Lake Oconee

Lake Oconee

--

-- ... ---

----- --

.. - --

- -- - -

96 . ---

288 0

---

--- -

300 -

900 0

52

156 21

--
0 16
0

. -- - - 1500
-
32000
315

-- -- . .. -

8

--

---

------

200
--

80 + areas

I Property Owners' Association) -Riverside Military Academy Limestone

around

bridges/roads

-- -

--

20

6 50

0.5

750

1

I Enviro!1~ental Gro':1p Putnam County 4-H Club

Creek --
Little Creek,

- - - ---

--

--

30

207 25+ plastic 0

600

- -- -,3

Rock Eagle

bags; heavy

I

- ----

Creek/Lake

--- - - -- - -- -- -

.. -. --

Little Ocmulgee Riverkeeper Little

24

scrap metal;

tar, etc.

-

---. ---

7 20

0

--

--

----

--- - -- - -

6000

3.5

I - - - - ---- - - - Oc~1:1:lgee

L\ttJe ~_ver '{~lle_r As5.n. - --

Little
- -- -

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Keep Lowndes/Valdosta Little River

I Beautiful

and Withlacoochee

... - -------

- - --
8
-
150

...

- .. --

-----

--

9.5 10 --

.... ---- ----- --

0
- - - - .. --

600 50

0

--
150
750

. ---

..

-

'8 .

3

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--- ---

.. ---

. - --

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I Bowdon First UMC BSA Troop 153, BSA Pack 153,

Little Tallapoosa

---- --- - - 25

-- --

-- --

100 64

- --
0

.. -

1500

1

Girl Sco~t Trooe ~6Q___

River

- - -- -

- -

I Long Island Creek Watershed Preservation

Long Island Creek

-- - -

--- - -- - -- - - .

15

60 18

- ... 0

----

- --- --

-- -

800

1.5

Ass --

o

ciat
------

i

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--- - - --

I Dade coun_ty 4-H__ Columbus Help-The-Hooch

--

-- - - -

Lookout Creek

Middle

-- - --19
-
10000

Chattahoochee

I OMI
River Rendezvous 2002
I

River & Tnbs
Mill Creek
- -
Nancy Cr., S. Peach. Cr., N. Peach. Cr.,

---- - - -

15
--
85

- --- - -- -45 0
40000 10,000
10 24 -.
180 36

-

- -- -

-- -- --

0

1,940

1

10,000
lo

1

400

0.1

-

--

0

540

1

I

43

0

0

Southeast Waters, Blue Heron Nature Preserve

Peach Cr. Nancy Creek

14

210

0

1900

0.5

0

Huntley Hills Neighborhood Nancy Creek tributary through

26

70 0

2

4500

.75

0

Keep Smyrna Beautiful, Keep Marietta Beautiful,

H':1ntley Hills-
Nickajack Creek,

94

371 14

l --

0

210

2

0

Keep Cobb Beautiful

Rotten wood

Creek,

Chattahoochee

River

Keep Athens Clarke County North Oconee Beautiful, North Oconee River Lake

375

1500 210 tires

0

70,000

J

River Greenway, UOWN, Chapman,

Georgia River Network, ACC Public Utilities

Trail Creek

LJ

Canon USA/Henderson Middle School

North Peachtree Creek

90

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Comments and Suggestions

'Georgia Exotic Pest Plant Council, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area

Chattahoochee River

'Oh, yes. Best turnout to date!

Gordon County 4-H

Ostanalla River

Yes. The amount of :trash was decreased. 1However, I would like 'to think that this is due the fact that this is the ,fourth year we have :targeted these sites, and educated people on why we shouldn't

For the third year, we pulled and dug Chinese !privet and other invasive exotic plants from a unit .of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation ,Area. Students from North Georgia College & State University, from Georgia Tech, and some members of the general public gained a greater awareness of the threat invasive exotic plants pose to our natural areas.

.yes

Yes .

Contribution of

$150.00

Southeast Climbers Coalition Bill E Ireland YDC
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Boat Rock Lake Oconee River
Etowah River

T-shirts are great for group enthusiasm/mor' ,ale.

1Yes, because we have 1opened a lot of eyes to .the need for the 1Oconee to be a clean
waterway.

none at this time Yes, people were Our event was held on the same day that we in There was a kick

very excited to .Milledgeville hold our annual Make a Difference off event to start

get T-shirts.

Day. By doing this we were able to use the energy the day. The

Matter of a fact, ithat people have when cleaning their community materials were

most people ,and carry it over to the river. People were

donated by differ

:came looking for educated that day. Many did not even think of organizations

:the same T-shirts ;the river as an important part of the community. 1with in the

.from last year. We were able to also educate the fishermen in our community.

community. They now know that each one of

'them is responsible for the river. I stated" If you

take from the Oconee River, than give back to the

river, ~eep jt clea~_!"

We consider our event 'Create a packet Yes, the posters, Our event was a combined nver cleanup and We received

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a success because we for the local

watershed

cook-off series, so it made it more fun because we various

had it on the

schools

. information

got to eat together before and after the clean-ups. vegetables

community events

describing the books, and T- ,We cooked with locally grown and organically (lettuce, mustard

calendar for a month watersheds in shirts were very t grown food, so that became educational when we ,greens, sweet

and met a few more our county,

,effective. I also talked about the fact that organic growing

potatoes, red

:people who live along because most purchased four :methods keep the streams cleaner, etc.

potatoes, green

!the nver who will

teachers are not copies each of

beans, eggplant,

support us in years to from the area the watershed

;peppers, and

come.

.and really don't posters of the

okra), totaling

1know; and try to Coosa and the

$50 dollars, from

get the schools Chattahoochee,

Revival Gardens

more involved in the two

Organic farm.

the whole thing, watersheds that

including

begin in

tributaries which Lumpkin County!

are often

and gave them ,

overlooked by ,away as prizes to;
nver-cleanup the participants i

publicity.

who collected the'

,most trash.

Yes, We were able to More banners or 'We have

:In the summer, we asked the City Council and ,The Upper

Iclean 3 areas again. signs that you displayed the ;County Commissioners to sign a proclamation Etowah River

Had lots of phone calls could place in ,poster and t- 'created by the employees of Etowah Water & Alliance asked

about the clean up, front of a

'shirts in our

Sewer Authority to proclaim October as Clean each county to

several organizations business that is library set up ,Water Month in Dawson County. The Upper have a

contacted EWSA & the supporting the :promoting Clean Etowah River Alliance provided "clean water" coordinator for

Alliance to do

activity to bring Water Month in Ipresentations to the local schools in Cherokee, the schools to

presentations at their awareness to Dawson County. 'Dawson, Forsyth, Lumpkin and Pickens

;contact. EWSA

next meeting.

others and

They are

:Counties. The total to date is 19+ classes and over' provided trash

.acknowledges educational as :600 kids reached. There is such an over

bags, dumpster

the business for :well as a good .whelming response and requests that we will and lunch for the

its commitment PR & marketing !continue these into November and through

:river cleanup

m protecting our :tools. Volunteers IFebruary 2003. We have received a lot of positive participants for

resources.

:love t-shirts and feedback from the community. Most were not the cost of

Banners or signs it gives not only ,aware of all the activities EWSA is involved in. $250.00. The

would be a way 'them some

'With the water restrictions still in force, taking Coordinators

to solicit more recognition but time to meet with individuals and groups has and presenters

volunteers and to Rivers Alive and .strengthened our relationship with the entire have spent

1encourage/educ all the

community and stressed the importance (and ,approximately

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ate others.

,lsupporters.

need) of our education and conservation program ,200 hours in

to managers and/or board members not involved planning,

with the day-to-day operations.

gathering

educational

'materials,

purchasing

items, clean

water

' '

presentations or

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in the actually

'

cleanups during

,October.

Southeast

Nancy Creek Yes.

Waters, Blue

Heron Nature

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Preserve

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'This was part of

a joint event at

.Blue Heron,

including

planting native

species. It was

supported by a

local real estate

agent, the local

neighborhood

groups, and two

_

Boy Scout troops.

Bethlehem Elementary

Hawkins Creek

It was a definite

The waiver form The posters and The original cleanup had been scheduled for Oct. 25 pairs of gloves

success. Even though is pretty scary ----' banners are

5th, but the county government cancelled due to '

our county had

down play all great, but the T- liability concerns. My 5th grade class and I had

canceled the officially that death stuff. ,shirts are

planned to be part of the cleanup, so when it was

scheduled cleanup, my !

:definitely a super: called off we were very disappointed. I talked to

!fifth grade class and I

,idea. My

'my principal and was given permission to have

decided to have our

students

.an on-site cleanup along the creek on our nature

own cleanup on-site.

continue to wear trail and around school grounds. We stayed

'There is a creek on our

theirs proudly. It outside all day cleaning up and having lessons at

nature trail so 1t

is a reminder of the same time. All the kids had signed permission

worked fine.

how they can be forms. We all wore our Rivers Alive t-shirts and

:

1good stewards of Home Depot donated 25 pairs of heavy duty

:the land and ,gloves to protect our hands. It was a great

water.

expenence for the students and for me. It was an

absolutely perfect teaching opportunity for me.

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Fannin County Toccoa River, This year's event

Chamber of

Lake Blue Ridge, covered a larger area of

Commerce, Lake Noontootla

'Fannin with fewer

Blue Ridge

Creek, Big Creek, volunteers than last

Water Sports Little Creek, ,year picking up more

Club, Tri-Cities Stanley Creek, trash.

Business

Flat Creek,

Association, Blue Weaver Creek,

Ridge Business Stillhouse Creek,

Association; Blue Hot House

Ridge Kiwanis, Creek, Wolf

Blue Ridge

Creek, Sugar

Mountain Arts Creek, & Dry

Association.

Creek

Pea vine

Peavine Creek yes

no

Watershed

Alliance

Bellsouth Ga. Sapelo Island yes

Pioneers

Be~ches

Cherokee

Council

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PR items work well to attract volunteers. Rad10 PSA :helped.
yes
yes
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.The kids collected 400 pounds of trash. The

Icommunity was not mvolved, however a reporter

from the local newspaper has asked for info so

:she can write an article.
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iCitizens of all ages and backgrounds worked

Local businesses

'together with the common goal. A very positive donated water &

event

food. Fannin

County

Government

donated truck

and labor; USFS

donated trucks,

labor and

'disposal. The

community

donated its time.

Our event is not

a fundraiser.

positive. Used the enviroscape - children and scout loved it. Had information on River of .Words and Project WET available

San Francisco .Coffee donated food and coffee, Teachers from ,the local school
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donated their time to educate the participating using the enviroscape, city donated bags Iand Jack White
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and his :Amencorp group :donated tools and help clean up the area

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1Paper

Harris Shoals Creek Savannah River
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getting more people involved . ne~t year

;I have been cleaning There needs to be The t-shirts were Every year, I encourage the volunteers to bring Lunch was

,this section of river for more

a great incentive their children. Along the river there are several provided by

three years. This year advertisement or for the

things that catch a child's interest and if the time Hercules, Inc and

we had to go farther education on this volunteers I had. 'is taken to explain why we need to remove the Dominos.

and collected less,

event. Not many At least they got trash (threats to turtles, birds and reptiles, what Dominos gave a

which to me indicates people know something for ,animals live alone the river and the importance of discount price of

:that the efforts on this about the efforts participating. clean water for our environment, the children are $6.00 per pizza

river, both up and

many volunteers

more apt to participate in future years. If it is and Hercules

,down stream, are

are putting

only pick up someone else's trash, a child will see paid $25.44 for

'having a very positive forth. If

it more as a chore than fun.

the pizzas.

effect.

somehow we

Liberty Janitorial

could get the

,provided trash

schools involved,

,bags (approx

the children

$8.00) and

would involve

International

.their parents.

'Paper provided

gloves, pick up

sticks, bug spray

and drinks

(aJ?prox $25.00).

'Yes. Good building 'Target churches .T-shirt is great Two of the AAS school groups are now making Rome-Floyd

block for next year. and youth

incentive. Posters signs to place at the areas they cleaned up asking County landfill

Participation was

groups. Get more are good, too. people not to dump. The students will all sign did not charge a

almost entirely from media coverage

'their names on the signs--hopefully people

tipping fee for

organized groups--not of organized

dumping at those sites will recognize some of the trash cleaned up

much participation group clean-ups

names of these kids in their community and think during events.

from individuals who at beginning of

twice.

Keep Rome-

heard advertising.

the month to

Floyd Beautiful

help advertise

donated trash

"walk-in" clean-

bags and gloves.

'ups (for

individuals and

families who

want to

participate on

their own) later '

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in the month.

Dade County 4- Lookout Creek H

,Yes, this area is used GA DOT helps to Yes, very much

continuously for

haul off

so.

j fishing, picnicking. Old accumulated

rusted cans and broken trash.

1glass can present

1hazards to users of this

,area. 4-H'ers were able

to see how people can

abuse our waterways

Ito the point of making

them dangerous to

enjoy.

4-H'ers were made aware of how this cleanup Employees of GA

helps the environment in 4-H meetings at the DOT, Dade

Ischools. 400 Promotional flyers were handed out County,

,at schools. Articles for newspaper.

furnished our

garbage bags,

and also took the

collected trash to

the transfer

station. Local

newspaper

publishes articles

on _the cleanup

Albany

Flint River

Audubon society

and turner job

corps

yes, it's difficult to get find a method to not really. We :yes, Keep Albany Beautiful provided plastic trash

,young people to do prevent

gave out shirts bags and surgical gloves. They also donated

anything. 20 showed dumping

'but that was not shirts. Albany Audubon paid for flyers and

up to help, many doing

the draw. He ;water.

community service for

newspaper

the first time. All said it

publicity helped,

,felt good and wanted

,the weather hurt. i

,to do more

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Huntley Hills Neighborhood

Nancy Creek YES!!! tributary through Huntley Hills-

Would like to ,I thmk the t- 'Brought together all ages, ethnic, etc. Met folks 1 No - got the stuff

have access to 'shirts did - and e- didn't know before who have now become

myself! I might

banner next year. mails to local iinterested in the Chamblee Community habitat get reimbursed

,groups, signs in :program with NWF. Good interaction between from

park, etc.

iyoung and older folks. Have created an interest in Neighborhood

i~ J~_o~~ib!~Adof)~::_~-~t!e_aE' ~?~ks_i1op ~ere.

A~s~~ia_ti<:m.

Keep Sandy

Chattahoochee

Springs North River

Fulton Beautiful,

Keep Roswell

Beautiful;

Chattahoochee

Nature Center,

Keep Alpharetta

Beautiful, UPS

Yes it was beyond our wildest expectations .People really liked the canoes and a chance to really get on the river and pick up all the debris caught along the shore hne.

The t-shirt was Our educational hands on activities are the as big $2500 at least we

really a big hit!!!! ,as the clean up. We worked with Adopt a stream are still addmg

We did a good ;and Eco Watch Americorp and set up interactive up all of the food

JOb of publicizing displays for kids/adults to learn more about

donations.

'the clean up and water, watersheds, and life in our river. We also 1

'good weather had quite a few groups out in neighborhoods

helped

.doing storm drain stenciling. The Chattahoochee

1Nature Center also donated the pontoon boat and '15 peopl~ gc::>! a tour _of the river by a naturalist!

Oconee County Apalachee River yes - had more

Some anti litter Our event was :Had increased participation by local residents

Clean and

volunteers than before signs we could held August 17th and miscellaneous volunteers. Stressed that

All expenses were paid by

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Beautiful

Dunwoody

Wildcat Creek

Nature Center,

HandsOn

Atlanta, Keep

DeKalb Beautiful

Keep Madison County Beautiful,

Broad River, South Fork

Raybon River Rats; Iluka Resources/TE Consolidated

Satilla River/Lake Herrin

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post when we finish our cleanup

and promotional ,many of the found items could be recycled and Oconee County

1materials were I the need for personal environmental stewardship. Clean and

not yet available.

! Beautiful.

We used articles

$225.00 for ads

and ads in our

and goodies for

local newspaper

volunteers.

:to announce the

.event.

:yes - next year we hope 'to go further 1downstream

:They were happyiWe used this as our activity for a HandsOn

Keep DeKalb

to get the t-

Atlanta expressway orientation. some volunteers Beautiful

:shirts. Posters, 'were not particularly into green issues, cleanups, provided trash

bookmarks, etc. :etc, but it was a teachable moment! We taught a bags, vests,

were in the

,young couple a little about recycling.

sticks, and a

'bottom of the t-

banner.

:shirt bag, we

Starbucks

'didn't discover

'donated coffee.

.them till the

Publix donated

whole thing was

cookies/ fruit.

over.

I think we had a very igood month although the rain did stop a lot of our planned events.

We are

During the

concerned about ;month we had

the event being ,numerous

held during deer cleanups

hunting season. ,throughout

,

;Madison County '

and one cleanup ,

,in Elbert county. ,

Yes!

Advertise earlier,' Yes! The T-shirts,: It encouraged us to come together for the

Iluke

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and in more

especially, were a:common good of the community. Everyone was Resources/TE

newspapers, great reward. ,excited for the event. Seeing the amount of trash Consolidated

hang banners in

:was an education in itself. In such a small area, ;donated $80 for

town (over road),,

:we gathered 55 bags of trash. We wanted to go to 'food for a post

bring in a

cleanup another site, too, but wore ourselves out! clean-up picnic.

dumpster for the :

1We need to share this information with our

They also

event and send

community

donated trash

out invitation

bags and a flat

postcards to

bed truck. A

interested

local citizen also

citizens.

donated a BBQ-

grill and cooking

e_xp~rtise. _

Keep Clayton Flint River County Beautiful

a huge success - biggest help with gloves :absolutely, we yes, we has a display from the Clayton County

'ever

:had a fish fry ,Water Authority and brochures

plus a fall festival!

at the school

yes, food form the local Kroger and they have agreed to sponsor next _y~a(~ even_t

JEFFERSON COUNTY MARSHAL'S OFFICE

OGEECHEE

YES, WE HAVE

KEEP UP THE YES

RIVER AND BIG PARTICIPATED IN iGOODWORK.

CREEK

THIS EVENT SINCE

1999 AND IT SEEMS

THE VOLUNTEERS

LOOK FORWARD TO

IT EVERY YEAR.

'THIS YEAR WE HAD SEVERAL SMALL GROUPS PARTICIPATE AT DIFFERENT TIMES ;THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. 1THE DIFFERENT GROUPS WERE ASSIGNED DIFFERENT AREAS TO CLEANUP AND IT ACTUALLY WORKED OUT RATHER WELL. WE HAVE ONE OTHER SMALL GROUP THAT 'IS PLANNING A CLEANUP LATER THIS MONTH.

Keep BainbridgeDecatur County Beautiful

Flint River

:We were delighted We are planning The T-shirts were Volunteer feedback was positive. Folks felt like Many thanks go

with the number of youth service

to set the first 'a WONDERFUL they were making a positive contribution. We to in-kind

Saturday of

1hit with

were fortunate to have wonderful collaboration ,contributions

organizations that

October as our :everyone. What among county, city, state and federal agencies. from local

.participated from our Rivers Alive 2003i a great idea to We included an informative display about our businesses and

county high school and date so we are 'use a Rivers of Adopt-A-Stream program, the Thronatesska

organizations -

college. Volunteers felt not in conflict Words design. Guardians, at the registration table. Our

Coca-Cola:

1good about the positive with other local :The posters and 'November KBDCB Education Committee meeting:beverages, GA

difference they had programs and other PSA

,featured the topic, water stewardship with an DOT: trash bags,

made at seven different events.

'supports were a emphasis on the Flint River. Teachers from most US Army Corps

areas along the Flint

great help,

'of our county schools received water stewardship .of Engineers:

River. The most trash

'thanks!

resources for their classrooms and school media :beverage sports

collected was from

1centers. Much of the instructional resources had bottles and

boats that took

:been coded to the state Science QCC objectives. 'covers, trash

volunteers to several

We also highlighted Adopt-A-Stream training collection, GA

Flint River sand bars.

options and resources.

DNA: trash

Our clean up involved

collection, Jones

a collaborative effort

Ecological

1that involved many organizations and

Center: Informational

agencies.

flyers, Adopt-A-

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Sonny's

Ochlockonee yes

Barbeque,

River

Loblolly Lumber

and Building

Supplies,

Englehart

Mining, Boy

Scouts Suwanee

Council, Girl

Scouts of

Southwest

Georgia

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Informational Display, International .Paper: maps, informational displays, registration forms/ supplies, logistical support, Decatur County: landfill waiver, City of Bainbridge: trash collection, SW GA Regional Library: informational display

,Posters - We had We had an adopt-a-stream training session

No, the majority

none. Video PSA following the clean up that was attended by ~ 8 of the clean up

- We did not people. Many of the Children and Adults were funds came out

have it. Local awestruck by the amounts and kinds of trash that of my own

:Sponsorship were found.

pocket. I think

Letter - Yes, T-

until we have a

,Shirts- yes

few more

:successful clean

:ups most of the

sponsorship in

our area will be

minimal. We had

a donation of

.supplies for

about $50 from a

local lumber

company, and a

mining company

donated about

150 trash bags.

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Fork Watershed

!

Alliance

Coosa River Cedar Creek Basin Initiative and Cave Spring

yes, definitely

EJ~mentary

West Atlanta Watershed Alliance

Utoy and Sandy 'Yes, very much so.

Creeks

Every, Every little bit

helps to get our

,environment and

icommunity a little

cleaner and healthier.

Lake Lanier

Lake Lanier

yes

Association

Girl Scout

Lake Horton -yes

Service Unit 619

tee-shirts

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'bringing people together in the watershed raises

awareness of both water quality issues and the

resources available to deal with those issues.

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contributions were about $75.
we received materials, bags and gloves from a local Home Depot. a 'Starbucks provided refreshments and a tire store
recycled the tires

split my group use the shirts and yes and press coverage helped spread the

City of Rome

into two groups everyone loved message about water pollution, plus the hands on

and work at two ,them sites

part was a great teaching moment
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Yes, people were I Yes, Starbucks donated the refreshments for their '

very surprise and group and the NWF donated refreshments for the

happy to receive Students at Mays.

them

board does well, going to personally change a few thing, recommends to avoid ma1or football events

yeah but unfortunately Lake Lanier Association :backed out and group joined up with Trash and Treasure

'we furnished yes - the fact that yes - we can use the event as a service proiect gloves and bags the t-shirt was
made out of

recyclable materials was of

interest to all the :

girls and their families

gwinnett county ,aas, rivers alive, local area businesses, boy scouts and girls scouts
.gloves and bags were donated by a local supply company

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Roswell Lions

Foe Killer Creek Had a low turnout. ;Had to reschedule due to schedule conflict with Habitat for Humanity Project on 'Oct 26th.

Little River Valley Assn.

Little River

,Eight of my school ,students participated in a Rivers Alive clean 1 ,up in their neighborhood. They were presented their Tshirts on our in-school TV news program that -was seen by 1200 students and a staff of 75. It was great publicity for Rivers Alive. An article will 'appear in our PTA ,newsletter highlighting the activity and :naming the participants

Baxley W1ldeme ss Institute

Altamaha River

Our event was a success. We had our press release published in the Advance,Progress (Vidalia) and :the Baxley News ,Banner prior to the event. We cleaned up
1
:Deen's Landing (Appling Co.)and the sand bar across the river (Toombs Co.)on Saturday 10/19 and then the boat landing at USl bridge (Toombs

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1Restaurant gave us access to Foe :Killer Creek.

'Yes, the materials Please see description in "Was event a success" We augmented.

'were helpful. field. Six students from BWI and three adults our efforts with

participated in our event as well as one at JayCee :informational

'. Landing down river the preceding weekend

materials

sponsored by Altamaha Riverkeeper. In both
1
'. events safety was discussed as well as the

provided by Altamaha

importance of taking care of our rivers. This was Riverkeeper.

pretty much ""preaching to the choir"" but no one

'minded.

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Wednesday, IOI?}_

Friends of the Ogeechee River, Yes, considering we

Ogeechee River, "Bull Hole

just organized on Oct

Jenkins Co. ___ Lanc!_ing"

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T-Shirts and

Picked up trash a boat landing on the river.

article in Millen

,News

Donation of materials

BellSouth

Coosa River @ yes - the site had been

t-shirts

.no

Pioneers - Rome Lock and Dam lrecently cleaned by

Park

someone required to

,do community service -

we still considered our

event successful

Pea vine Watershed Alliance
South Peachtree Creek Nature Preserve

Pea vine Creek
South Peachtree Creek

Very much!

Try to encourage Very much so ... other cleanups to every one loves partner with ,the shirts! bookstores to help promote future events.

Yes, it was the

None

Saturday of Tropical

Storm Hanna & we had

,27 committed

:Yes, the t-shirt :was a big hit!

Have established a long time, long-term cleanup Partnered with

that Emory participates in (students and faculty) :Starbucks Coffee,

and have the support of Emory Village

,CVS Pharmacy,

merchants. As part of the cleanup Emory

Panera Bread

University Recycling has established a permanent: Company, Druid

recycling center at the CVS by Peavine Creek. Hills Book Store,

_Two cub scouts sold popcorn at the event and 1and Sierra Club.

'donated 10% of sales to the Peavine Alliance. 1We also conduct

stream

.monitoring by

Sierra Club

volunteers.
1
Druid Hills Book

Store did a

display with

Rivers Alive T-

_shirts and

materials and left

! if up for the

month of

October (in two

:There were a number of kids from a local

windows).
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,that was being pulled from the creek. Even the

adults were commenting on some of the larger

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volunteers battling the
elements to help their
Ilocal stream.

Little River

Chicken Creek

Valley Assn.;

Birmingham

Hopewell

Alliance; Adopt

a Stream;

Roswell

:Recycling Center

,We felt it was a great 'success! Thanks to :Sharon Cowden, we :were able to place the discs on the storm drains which the kids
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loved doing. We educated many scouts
1
:about the importance 'of protecting the waterways. After picking up two pick up trucks full of trash, I doubt any one of the .girls would ever drop :anything along a 1roadway. We had a lot iof fun and did a lot of education along with the fun.

Keep Smyrna Beautiful, Keep Manetta IBeauttful, Keep Cobb Beautiful

Nickajack Creek, 'Yes! Rotten wood Creek, Chattahoochee River

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items, such as tires, shopping carts, sofas, etc.

,The kids loved We met at a church and started with light

.Publix graciously

earning the T- refreshments. Sharon Cowden of Fulton Co. :donated 12

shirts. We had a Adopt-A- Stream spent about 20 minutes

gallons of orange

Rivers Alive

educating the individuals about water protection. juice.

banner up at the ,She used her wonderful Enviroscape exhibit and

roadway. It's 'the kids certainly enjoyed the hands on exhibit.

exciting to see Sharon had brought a lot of printed materials

the increased also. Then, George Gamble of the Roswell

'awareness of Recycling Center spoke about the importance of

Rivers Alive. recycling. He, too, had printed materials

:Thanks for all available. Since we were concentrating on the

:you do!

:protection of a large wetland in NW Fulton, we

:had arranged for Mickey Feltus to present

1information but unfortunately, he got lost and

never could find us. All in all, there is definitely a

heighter;ied awareness of water protection in our

community.

'T-shirts were a ,great help!

We had two sites. At Nickajack Creek, we hosted We received $50

'a youth-oriented event that had lots of

from Waste

educational displays from the Cobb Adopt-A- Management for

.Stream program and Cobb Parks who did

breakfast

interpretive wetlands tours. Our other site at the

Paces Mill National Recreation area was adult-

focused although we had two groups of high

'school students. This site provides dramatic

examples of how litter in storm drains reaches the

nver. Group leaders showed volunteers how to

recognize poison ivy pointed out wild life and

instructed them on nonpoint source pollution. We,

had lots of flyers on nonpoint source pollution

and water conservation at this site. We also

painted over a large amount of gang graffiti

under the 1-75 overpass.

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Yes!

Water Quality tributary to

Program,

Nancy Creek

Planners for

Environmental

Yes! The banner Community Watershed Festival with

:is great!

.demonstrations, displays, crafts and games for

kids, storm drain stenciling, nature walks, and the
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Yes.

Several

Yes.

We did do npsp education with our volunteers. InfoMart did

AAS, Argyle Creek

volunteers were

Unfortunately, we also had several groups cancel purchase

Elementary,

minors whose

this year due to West Nile-those groups will get cupcakes for the

InfoMart

parents were

npsp education also.

volunteers

alarmed by the

(@$25.00)

waiver and

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children

participate even

thought the

students had

done clean-ups

with Cobb

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coordmatmg

participation from our schools

all said they

received

numerous calls

from parents after the waivers

were sent home).

River Rats

Satilla River

very much a success. more volunteers We had no

'Teenagers were great! The community was

:support form

:The area businesses - I feel that our information form, excited about our success. All the businesses that local businesses

donated everything for effort will double you. We hope to :donated items asked and very excited about our

food, prizes, games, in size in the use your stuff 'results. Volunteers are still talking about the

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bags and gloves. We gave away over 20 !prizes for trash bag poker, most unusual item, scavenger hunt, etc.

spring. We plan :next time. to do it 2x a year. We found the if you make it fun , with prizes and games and feed people, they will come

feeling of" doing something to help" they loved the t-shirts

Shaw Industries, Conasauga River,IYes, this was our 8th Next year we :The T-shirts were See above - storm drain stenciling. We also had a We received

Dalton-Whitfield Tributary to Tar annual cleanup and will need to get 'the only items live aquatic invertebrate display at the

$2000 from Shaw

Regional Solid Creek within Iparticipation this year more small and that we used this registration tent. Each kid received a car trash bag Industries,

Waste

Lakeshore Park, tied our best year

medium size t- year- thanks! We 1containing a recycling coloring book, crayons, Dalton Utilities,

Management Dalton

(1995). It was our first shirts. We are also produced pollution poster, and free Chik-fil-A sandwich and the OW

Authority,

Itime cleaning up a considering some our own

.coupon. We also handed out brochures about Solid Waste

Dalton Utilities,

public park and the habitat

Conasauga t- :protecting the Conasauga River and conservation Authority. This

Keep Dalton-

first time that we had restoration

shirts with a ;of water around the home.

money went

Whitfield

substantial numbers of efforts at the drawing of the

toward the

Beautiful, The

young volunteers,

cleanup site.

Conasauga's

,purchase of our

Nature

primarily cub scouts.

threatened and

t-shirts, food,

Conservancy,

The weather was

endangered

and other

Conasauga River

beautiful and

fishes.

, materials.

Alliance, Dalton

everything went very

Pubhc Works,

smoothly. In addition

Whitfield &

to trash pick up, we

Murray County

:had groups stenciling

Governments,

"Dump no waste"

Dalton State

:messages on the storm

College

;drains in the parking

Environmental

lots and adjacent

Club

neighborhood

Keep Toccoa- Lake Hartwell Stephens County Beautiful, Camp Toccoa, Blue Ridge Outdoor Education Center

Yes, all participants would consider this event our biggest success yet. We collected more small items than any other year and had more volunteers.

continue to have Yes some of the our county marshal (in the marsh) gave useful we spent 51

great food and materials were safety information; local cam educator spoke on dollars on the

we were in need helpful esp t- i"what's a wetland worth", former exec. spoke on event out of

of more variety shirts. One of the importance of clean up and water utility director sponsor funding,

in sizes of tshirts.

group leaders spoke on water waste. participants gained a

'however, we had

1gave extra credit irespect for the environment and were encouraged a surplus of food

to all students ,to recycle.

(over 100$

who came. The

worth) donated

'majority of the

by the Atlanta

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Sweetwater Creek

Our event was a great success: 1. first ever by the Gwmnett Open Land Trust. 2. local neighborhood involvement. 3. great local media coverage. 4. event covered 13 acres of floodplain(# of river/ shoreline miles above dramatically understates the amount of area cleaned in our case).

Coweta Adopt- Flat Rock, Wahoo! would consider the I believe the

A-Stream

Creek, Mountain even a huge success. cleanup was

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.volunteers came for the grade.

:bread ministry ;complements of Amy White, a ,local camp .administrator

.T-shirts were Got great local media coverage, including quotes Dona hons: soda

very, very

.about water quality.

and bottled

,popular -- we

.water, donuts,

consider them to ' bean essential

1trash bags, work gloves, discount

;component. We

;on sign

:used some

:production.

'mformation

:provided in the

model press

release, but

1wrote our own.

:other

!supplementary 1

materials were of'

little use. The

poster was too

'general and ,

:cluttered to be of ;

:use; PSA's won't

,get any play for a'.

very local event.

,Sponsorship

request must be 1initiated by

phone, then
,followed up by a I
!Jetter -- not sure

1that a standard

letter would do

~ ~uch_ go<:>d:_ _

Our even helped our community in a large way. 1We received a

It was able to pull our community together to get 'good number of

'something good done. It opened a lot of people's 'dona hons all
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park

worried because we nicely.

didn't have as many

eyes to problems facing our community today. It thru out the

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also showed them many problems that they

community.

:people as we expected,

themselves are causing. If only there were more

:but we pulled out

programs like this one to open the eyes of the

twice as much trash.

.comm~nity.

Rock Creek Watershed Alliance & Morningside Lenox Park Association
National Park Service

Rock Creek

yes.

nothing for rivers Our small group yes

Our event was

alive to do

may make a few

very small. But it

differently. Your changes

did involve some

group did a greati

local business

job of keeping us ,

groups and some

informed and

children from

reminded of all

cub scouts and

'our dates,

the

responsibilities,

neighborhood.

etc.

Chattahoochee IYes. Park employees

Everyone Loved Jerry Hightower provided educational

Employee

River, Island who normally work in

,the T-shirts and :information on the history and geography of the Association

Ford, Vickery an office setting were

:the poster.

,river to the canoe trip participants. The groups donated $150.00

Creek, Powers out in the woods

icleaning Vickery Creek and Island Ford where for the barbeque,

Island and Paces jhiking and canoeing.

highly visible to park neighbors as they cleaned cake and sodas.

Mill

We wrapped up the

both the creek and river banks and along busy

event with a park

'roadways.

employee association

sponsored barbeque,

complete with

Halloween Cake.

Fnends of the Ogeechee River Yes. We had students The current

yes

Ogeechee River

from the Key Club of program seems

Jefferson County High to be working

School doing the

well as is.

cleanup. First time for

the young teenagers to

:participate in such an

event.

It brought an awareness to the students who saw yes first had the results of "trashing" our rivers and ;stream. At first they had a hard time "seeing" the trash and once they started looking they realized , the amount that was present.

Snapfmger Creek Snapfinger Creek yes

Watershed

and Pine Lake

Alliance

.If the date were Yes, safety education was definitely a part and Yes. We solicited

on the banner, 1t people are always surprised how much trash is in local restaurants

would be a good the stream.

for gift

way to

certificates for

advertise.

lunches to give

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,Without it, it is ;just an announcement that the event is :"today." I know 'that 1s difficult :with so many groups holding events on different days . and with groups 1 'sharing banners. In the past, the banner with the date on it proved to be the best way to get ;volunteers to :show up.

as prizes (value ~$14 total). Kroger gave $20 worth of bottled water and Ingles gave a $50 gift 'certificate that was used to purchase more bottled water, ice, gloves, and trash bags. A resident .purchased ~$10 worth of novelty toys to give the kids as pnzes for !"most unusual :item" from each ,team.

Keep Pike Beautiful

Flint River, Potato Creek, Elkins Creek

Yes, primarily because The event was Yes

the Pike County

planned just fine

.Magistrate participated by the state

in the cleanup, sees the organization.

extent of littering and

hopefully will sentence

litterers to pickup

,details along with their

fines.

Keep Pike Beautiful worked with local citizens, 1Yes, Kiwanis

;Pike County Correctional Institute, and the

,Club

;Kiwanis Club for this event. We received lots of

coverage in our local newspaper and our 1st

,annual cleanup was a success and hopefully we

,will get better as we gain experience. Walker and

'. Ruth Chandler were instrumental in getting this

.event organized. Yes, there was an educational

component. I gave information and presentations

_i ~o-~'!r_k>_~~! midd~e_sch-9~1 and ~-_l:f_ org_~niza~io11_. _____ _

The John Ripley Power's Branch yes Forbes Big Trees Forest Preserve

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yes

Our participants were from the University of IWe did not Tennessee. They enjoyed it very much and we i receive any Idid use it as an educational event. More than Igrants, etc. 35,000 annual visitors to the Forest will appreciate:

Little Ocmulgee River keeper

Little Ocmulgee

j the_ str~am a_nd w~!~rs_hed cle~n-up_.



,Iyes, I was very pleased do more

I am sure they :Everyone has a home on the Little Ocmulgee water, don'ts,

with the tum out and advertise on my 'helped, but word River or is related to so who does. Everyone was ices, buns,

amazed at all the trash. end

of mouth, person ialready talking about next year

hotdogs and

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Ocmuglee and Atlmaha

LOPOA (Lake Lake Oconee Oconee Property Owners' Association)

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good. I had 30 ,people tell me they were icoming and 24 showed

Stinson's BBQ

yes

continued

t-shirts were ;yes

growth in south great

Georgia and

come down and

promote the

work in south

Georgia - RA

.board member

come down and

visit/ support

cleanup

, o~ganizers

local support form local and state agencies, three rivers expeditions and volunteers

Yes!!! Participants were Just keep up the 'Yes. All materials We got a front-page story and pictures in the local Yes, local .

very enthusiastic and good work! appreciated the

we received

newspaper about 4 weeks before the cleanup, a businesses were

1(posters, radio ,follow up story two days before the event, and we very supportive.

,support from our

'PSA, letter

expect a story about the results in next week's Our sponsors

sponsors. They

! templates, t-

paper. WDDK (DOCK 103.9) aired PSA's and provided money,

cleaned on foot, by

shirts, etc.)

:announced Rivers Alive in their community

lunch, a pavilion

powerboat, and in

helped

events coverage.

at Lawrence

kayaks. People from

:promotion of the

Shoals Park for

.different parts of the

event. The t-

use after the :

community were

shirts are a great

cleanup, bottled

involved. Many said

;incentive!

water, trash bags,

they want to

gloves, insect

'. participate next year.

repellant,

sunscreen,

promotional

,items, prizes

awarded by

drawing (dock

ladder - valued

at $250, sterling

silver key ring -

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Keep Athens North Oconee Clarke County River Lake Beautiful, North Chapman, Trail Oconee River Creek Greenway, UOWN, Georgia River Network, ACC Public Utilities

It was the largest and We served a yes
I
'most productive Rivers lunch and had a Alive we have had. band after the
event and the volunteers really enjoyed corning back and relaxing m the
ear~.

,gift certificate .$25). I estimate 'that we received

about $1000 in

;cash, supplies,

_a~d _prizes

'We had conservation material on hand and Keep ,We received $800

Athens Beautiful material for the volunteers to :cash. Free

read.

Coffee, Free

1bottled Water, And the Band

volunteered.

East Paulding Powder Springs Middle School Creek Tributary Environmental Club "Keepers of the Earth Club"

Yes, if anything the kids learned how important it is to keep the waterways clean. They were eager to learn more about the health of the creek and wanted to go out again the following weekend

The kids loved the t-shirts, it :was a great reward. We also used the posted to advertise at school.

t9 do_ ~or~ ~eaning.

Altamaha River keeper

Altamaha River absolutely

more local participant most volunteer came from outof-town

't-shirts helped!

Hopefully good but it was a matter of out-oftowners coming in and cleaning up the locals' 1trash on the sandbar

1 $160
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Altamaha River - Yes, I feel the event I suggest that the The T-shirts were I think all the volunteers that were new that day All the pizza for

- JC Landing was a success. I am the event be held ,really nice and will continue to volunteer. Several of those

:lunch was

Downtown Director for two times a year :did attract

'people have joined Peachy Clean since the event. !provided by

the City of Jesup. I just to promote more :volunteers. We ,We are trying to do more educational events

Pizza Inn in

began my job 2 months awareness. ago and joined Peachy

:had an ad in the Iwithin our group including a recycling brochure. Jesup. They are

paper that

1

,very involved in

Clean last month. I

;attracted a few :

1helping several

think with more

people also.

:groups in the

promotion of the event

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we could do even more. In 2001, they
!said there were only a
few participants was this year the event attendance improved significantly. We just 1need to reach out to
:more civic groups within the commun_ity.

.will be honoring them with a certificate next month.

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Mill Creek

City of

Flat Creek and Yes, this is the best

Gainesville/Hall Limestone Creek turnout we have ever

County Adopt-

had.

A-Stream

Program

we are going to yes, we

.This is a forgotten area of the city, but we decided no

'put containers by appreciate the t- this would be a good reason to clean it up.

the creek side for shirts

people to discard

their trash in.

Yes, they helped 1Met at the Flat Creek wastewater treatment plant,

:divided into groups, removed litter and met at a '

;local park for gifts and pizza for lunch.

Friends of the Chattahoochee yes, Rivers Alive did a

Upper

,great job.

Chattahoochee

!

Tallapoosa River Tallapoosa River yes any amount of

Watch

trash big or small

makes a big difference

in our rivers and

.streams.
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Putnam County Little Creek, ,Yes, it is an excellent

4-H Club

Rock Eagle

.community service

Creek/Lake :project for our 4-H

program. The kids

really enjoy

participating and

receiving a free t-shirt

makes it very

:rewarding to them.

yes, very much had a very good cleanup with school kids and Iboy scouts. Got good publicity
:no

food donations of $400
no

T-shirts were a :0nce we were done with picking up trash :I great P.R. tool

:for the event.

The kids were

showing them offi

at school the next'

day!

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Soque River

Habersham

Middle School,

Soque River

Outdoor

Classroom,

Gainesville

College Service

Learning Project,

Department of

Natural

Resources

We cleaned the Soque River adjoining the
Outdoor Classroom on Friday, Oct. 18. Classes
I
picked up trash, sorted ,trash Yes.

'Yes, the T-shirts We cleaned the Soque River adjoining the

are the most

Outdoor Classroom on Friday, Oct. 18. Classes

helpful. Letters :picked up trash, sorted trash and determined

and literature what were some preventive measures to take to

were also

.prevent littering. On Tuesday, 23 students,

beneficial.

1parents, and teachers traveled to Jackson Bridge

on Hwy 197 after school and picked up litter

along 1 1/2 miles of waterway on the Soque.
1

transportation.
I
iThe Department of Transportation donated trash bags and picked
1
:up the bags of 'trash. The Department of :Natural ,Resources 'provided !personnel to .assist and guide 'the clean up.
jTeachers collected permission forms
Iand coordinated
ithe cookout afterwards. School lunch
Ipersonnel '.donated time to cook the hotdogs :and prepare food ;after school.

Little Ocmulgee Ocmulgee River Riverkeeper

:Posters were :great! T-shirts ;were appreciated!

:Water - Shannon
1Thompson I
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Friends of

Chattahoochee Yes. Even though there The state office ;The posters

As newcomers and latecomers we did little

!The McIntosh

McIntosh

around McIntosh ,was early morning rain has provided I helped a great ,specifically to educate folks. The radio stations 'Reserve Park

Reserve; Sertoma Reserve

and some folks stayed more than we ;deal in publicity.. and newspapers did stories and this has

'donated the trash

Club of

away, we had two

utilized. We neediAlmost no one 1educational value. Sunday local paper has a

;bags.

Carrollton;

,groups that need to to set a year-long was motivated to. photo on the front page done by one of their own :Refreshments

independents

increase

planning cycle come by the t- .photographers. (We'll try to remember to send and

communication and and register

shirts but folks ;one.)

,Photocopying

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the park manager

earlier.

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working together. We

:found more trash than

even we realized

would be along the

.river and we found an

unused area that has a

natural collector where

the glass just paved the

ground. We will

continue on that area

later.

were impressed with the shirts :and proud to have one. We'll probably have a meeting where 'those who have .them will wear the shirts - a :warm-up for next year.

were paid for by !Friends of :McIntosh Reserve. Individuals did other work and ;picked up 'incidental expenses.

City of Savannah Savannah and Coastal Regional Training Center (Dr. Richardson)

.I would consider our We should have 'T-shirts are

event a success but canvassed the always great as

there is still much to do adjacent

ian incentive.

in the area we chose to ,neighborhoods

clean up. There is

to promote the

discussion in trying to event.

get other groups to get

out in the same area for

a clean up.

We are always trying to educate the public but :this was an opportunity to get out there and actually do something. This was also a great 'public relations event for the community as well as the adjacent township.

We received about $250 in inkind donations.

BSA Troop 745, Douglasville Ward 3 City Councilman Henry Mitchell, Avalon Homes, Fortress Storage

Gothards Creek

:Yes - Participants are For my future The T-shirts were We were working entirely within a subdivision.

:always amazed at the cleanups, I will 'great.

'The stream runs through people's yards and there

variety and volume of bring shovels

:were drainage problems caused by some big logs

iterns found in

and machetes

that stopped up culverts and was causing

.streams. This year, the and work more

property damage. The City does not clean up

city sent a bus load of to remove mostly.

,drainage problems on private property so they

.teenagers order by the buried items.

.asked if we would help out as part of our

court to perform

We left several

volunteer effort. The developer of Avalon

community service. items because we

:Homes, a neighboring subdivision under

We had them removing couldn't dig

;construction, replaced a culvert under a driveway

logs and debris and them out by

and provided equipment including a chain saw

they worked hard. I hand.

:and a bobcat. The residents seem genuinely

Think they sensed that

1appreciative of our efforts. One lady fixed a big

they were part of

table of cookies, doughnuts, and juice for the

something grand.

volunteers. The only educational activity was

They mentioned to me

answering the questions o

that they were

impressed at our 11
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so hard as volunteers.

We had the help of a

bobcat and some chain

saws this year where

were very helpful in

removing some

obstructions in the

channel.

Dublin-Laurens County Recreation Authority, Boy Scout Troop 66, GA Dept. of Corrections

Oconee River

Teamed up with Keep Dublin-Laurens Beautiful and the Bell South Pioneers (Ed Pierce) for a very successful event in Dublin & Laurens County. Area boat landings were extremely manicured, including entrance roads.

Need to recruit :volunteers

An adhoc committee is in the process of being The DubIm-

volunteers to ,always like the !formed to help monitor water quality in our area. Laurens County

actually get in T-Shirts. Local :Gerald Smith has made presentations to both the IRecreation

the river corridor ;TV station did a Icounty Commissioners and the Dublin City

'Authority

to remove debris jnice 5-minute .Council and has garnered their support. You provided lunch

0on Boats, Wave :spot for us.

may be aware of the tragic accident that

for all volunteers

Runners, etc.) Local newspaper happened this past Summer when an 11 year old ithrough their

printed advance was playing at the Sportsman's Club Landing and! Outdoors

iPSA and follow- fell in about 2 foot of water and inhaled a fatal !Section.

Iup.

parasite through his nose.

Darton College Kinchafoonee Yes

Adventure

Creek

Club, The Flint

River Outpost,

AlbanyDNR-

Environmental

Protection

Division, The

Parks at Chehaw

Ensure everyone ,I never saw a ,We had a relatively small group. It was good to ,

knows the details;PsA concerning !get people from different parts of the community

about the event this event in our together. We made a really good impact on the

before you start. local media

River with all the trash we picked up. The

We cleaned the ; banks on the
river side using

participants all felt good about what we
,accomplished. We did not do any education
!programs with this event.

canoes, having

motor boats with'

us allowed us to !

carry more trash

and have

emergency

evacuation

transport

available

Sierra Club

Savannah River - very successful it gave Augusta Canal Ithe community and

!people enj;yed

1the t-shirts

'I

no I was too late ;in asking

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opportunity to show they care

Conyers

Oconee

yes

Rockdale Clean

and Beautiful

Most all of the participants were youth. We had :two high schools, 4-H clubs, girl scouts and boy scouts who participated. An area of wetland , 'was cleaned by one group in which the kids really :got into it. They found all kinds of trash trapped 1in the grass.

Green Club-St Arrow Creek yes Pius HS

:more trash bags

yes, the T shirts 'are especially :helpful

We had free snacks provided by Green club. The club invited an extra 20 students, besides the ,regular Green Club members, to a snacks and clean up after school. Students also earned ,service hour credits. Other faculty assisted so we : ,could have supervisi~:m.

Chattahoochee

It was a wonderful I will try and We used the This event was a part of our student group

success for my students recruit more posters and

S.E.A.T. (Student Environmental Action Team)

and everyone

students next ;audio PSA to and it served as a great motivator and reward for

involved. We worked year and I

.help recruit

:au the hard work we have done attempting to get

with the Upper

believe that word students and the organized this year. We are beginning an Adopt- ;

Chattahoochee

of mouth will T-shirts served as. a-Stream program and this experience will

Riverkeepers and Cool definitely help a great reward. definitely help inspire everyone.

River Tubing, they because of this '

were great partners. year~ success

The Coca-Cola Chattahoochee Company, Keep River Roswell Beautiful, Keep Sandy Springs/North Fulton Beautiful

Absolutely

T-Shirt always a big hit. , Particularly .appreciative that : :the shift was 1made from , recycled material.

Will send press release

GA WILDERNESS SOCIETY

Ocmulgee River The event was very ,Expansion of the Yes

successful. Follow-up program to

cleanup scheduled for include the Boy

Oct 19th was rained
I
out and is now

Scouts Troops in the Macon &

postponed until next Forsyth areas.

year as of the writing. ,Continue

The event was a 10-mile cleanup north of Macon on the Ocmulgee River. Eight canoes were used and filled with garbage and tires within the first 6 miles. A follow-up was scheduled for the last 4 'miles, but the rain prevented it from happening. Macon paper and GWS advertising got several :new participants and some wanting to do

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Nancy Cr., S.

Rendezvous 2002 Peach. Cr., N.

Peach. Cr., Peach

.Cr.

scheduling cleanups on a Shorter Distance but more often. Early advertising to get more involved.

cleanups at a later time, including next year.

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The River Rendezvous is a watershed-wide event Starbucks,

that places volunteers at 70+ sites to collect water Einstein's Bagels,

samples for subsequent analysis, pick up trash, !and Kroger's

I

1and record visual data. It's a fantastic

contributed over

community-organizing tool. There are displays, $400 of in-kind

,talks, and post-event data sharing.

materials.

j Oglethorpe U.

hosted the event.

Keep Crisp Beautiful

Lake Blackshear

Canon

North Peachtree

USA/Henderson Creek

Middle School

Friends of

Sweetwater

Sweetwater

Creek

Creek State Park,

Inc.

very successful

none

_, -

Yes and it was also an we should have

1educational

brought more

.opportunity for the 67 trash bags.

Henderson Middle

School Students who

participated

Yes

You do a good

job of it now. I

can't think of a

thing to change

or add.

yes - everyone loved the t-shirt

1neighbors came over to help us clean, one even local businesses

'.brought his tractor that caught fire. Since the 'donated snacks

cleanup, neighbors have been reporting dumping!

in the area

:

Yes, the tee shirt In a short speech prior to the clean up we stressed: Including the

,and lunch and to the 67 children that they, our young people, hats and lunch
1
;Canon hat that 'should use the clean up experience to always Iand the Rivers

we provide

remember they should never forget that our

:Alive Tee shirts

always enables environment needs constant attention if it is to ;almost $2000 was

us to get more ;remain in tact for future generations.

spent by Canon

volunteers.

!

!on the students
iand teachers and

:Canon

!employees who Iperformed the

:c)~n ue:__ -

The advertising No onsite educational activities this year. Posters ;Corporate

done by you was were put in all county schools. 122 volunteers iSponsor, All Pro

fine. We did represented boy and Girl Scout organizations, !courier Service,

additional

and the schools had 18.

'provided all the

advertising for

:food and

'this area. The Tshirts helped a

refreshments
I
!served to the

lot. We could

;volunteers after

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Georgia Wildlife Alcovy River & Yes Federation, Keep Yellow River Covington/New ton Beautiful, Keep Walton Beautiful, Junior Bass Busters Club, Newton High School Environmental Club, Easts1de High School Naturalist Club, Troop 12 & Pack 102, Troop 1827, St Augustines Catholic Church, & BellSouth P10neers

Georgia

Chattahoochee

Environmental

Organization

Chattahoochee Chapter of Society of American Foresters

Sweetwater Creek

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This was a great success. We received good press coverage ,and were able to get a forestry group, a local 'land trust organization, and a neighborhood group together to clean a waterway. True

:have more

:posters so they

don't have to be

sent around, and :

could be on

,display longer at _

each site.



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1The psa's & t- :There were the usual groups, plus a few new

shirt did the groups. The participants learned that they could

most to assist us have an impact on the community. Educational

in getting the :activities were part of the cleanup. These

word out.

,included an Enviroscape & various water games.

the cleanup. Estimated cost,
$200.00
$1,250

T-shirts were well received. Design was better last year.

We took a look at everything we collected and talked about its origin and recyclables. Great discussions.

Posters were of See the above description. I wiU fax you a copy of We received

no help. The :the article.

support from

lshirts were a

Kroger in the

great way to

_way of water and

j thank people for

:doughnuts.

being involved.

Gwinnett Open

Land Trust

worked with my

~oup as did the

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Tifton Alapaha Upper Alapaha River Alliance, River Boy Scout Troop 62 - Tifton
Spring Creek Spring Creek

environmental jconsensus with one clear goal. Thank you for making this ;possible this was a win-win for everyone involved and for Georgia as a whole.
The event, our 3rd annual, was the best yet! The number of youth and adult volunteers was the 'greatest m our 3-year history.
,yes, on a small scale
Yes, on Saturday,

Georgia Forestry Commission and the local neighborhood -group. We all ,put in many hours prior to the ,cleanup to 1ensure its success.

None - just keep iT-shirts were the

making it

'greatest drawing .

possible.

1card!

.Transportation 'via school bus was required. 'The bus was donated by the 'Morgan County ;Board of ;Education .
.Funds to pay the 'driver were .provided by a
I
:youth :development grant, supported by Morgan 'County Family Connection.

none--1 thought the event was well organized and run

this was our first year and we wanted to keep :no assistance was

things small. bad weather (rain in October!)

'.sought this year--

.helped us keep it small. our goal was to cleanup :a private

a small, much used public access stretch of river, ,individual

1and this we did. we also wanted to bring

:donated the

environmental issues into the consciousness of 1food, water,

,our rather anti-environmental area. the

bags, etc.

,newspaper article about our cleanup helped.

;those who attended our cleanup were given a

,brief talk about the natural history of our river,

___ :which the participants seemed to e~joy. ~ ___ _

We have come a Yes, all the

:Local Business that gave donations was Winn- 'SCWSTF and

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Water Safety Task Force

Upper

Chattahoochee

Chattahoochee River near

Riverkeeper, Morgan Falls

Fulton County Dam

Adopt-A-Stream,

EPA Region IV,

Aqua scape

Environmental,

GA Power

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long way from supplementary Dixie, Food Lion, Greene's Poultry, Lanes

volunteers joined .together with local

the 1972 Clean materials were a Pharmacy, Mitchell Johnson Building Supply,
Water Act in igreat help! The '.CVS Pharmacy, Spring Creek Resort, PX

:sponsor, Spring Creek protecting our Rivers Alive T- Publications, Ted Martin Farm Insurance,

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water Safety Task

part of the world.;shirt we

;Superior Mortgage, Citizen Jr. Food, Peoples

.Force (SCWSTF) to do All of those that 'received was a Bank, Seminole Winds, Sons of Confederate

removed tires, glass came before our great help.

Veterans Camp 1689, Parker Paint Dixie

bottles, bed mattresses, group were, in .Volunteers also ,Doughnuts, Paul Fryer Attorney at Law, Fisher

baby diapers and other my opinion, ireceived a

.Irrigation, Lambert's Building Plant Telephone

'trash from the waters 'looking for ways ,voucher to the Company and St. Joseph Catholic Church.

;and banks of Spring to join their

,Cookout and

Creek for a total of efforts together ILive

2960 pounds for trash with others to Entertainment

'and 38 tires.

make a change in featuring Port

habits.

Blue of

Bainbridge at
~ Spring Creek

Park Resort.

,Spring Creek Resort sponsored the Cookout. The Park was open to the public and about 150 local joined us on that .rainy evening of ,music, food a fun. The Spring Creek Water ,safety Task Force gave out 180 pieces of information on water safety, :Adopt-A- Stream ;Program and tips on how to help protect the environment. Monetary value: .$500.00, Effects it 'had on our ,community:

Priceless

The cleanup was a More canoes for All

HUGE success! It was cleanup

supplementary

an excellent

participants. materials were

opportunity for local I

'helpful in

:organizations and

publicizing the

:government agencies

event and

!to partner in the

attracting

celebration of Rivers

1 volunteers.

Alive and the 30th

anniversary of the

Clean Water Act.

Almost all cleanup participants provided positive EPA provided

feedback on the cleanup and expressed an

key chains and

interest in organizing/participating in more

magnets for

cleanups throughout the year. Before the

,participants.

cleanup, GA Power employees offered a tour of Riverkeeper has

,Morgan Falls Dam. Prior to the cleanup, Bill Sapp:a small grant

:provided an overview of Rivers Alive and

from United

:Riverkeeper gave participants a brief overview of Water to help

.the Chattahoochee River. Fulton County Adopt- support their

!a-Stream brought an Enviroscape nonpoint

cleanups on the

:source pollution mo<;lel to better demonstrate the Upper

watershed concept.

Chattahoochee

River, which

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Pioneers

Creek

Region 4, Water Woodall Creek Management Division, USEPA

USEPA, Region 4, Water Management Division

Unnamed creek in the Huntley Hills area that flows to Nancy Creek

Keep

Little River and

Lowndes/Valdo Withlacoochee

sta Beautiful River

Yes
Very successful. Held in conjunction with community group. Yes. Very successful.
Yes.

helped provide refreshments and gloves for the participants (costing approximately '$150 for this :cleanup).

T-shirts were a motivator to come out.

iBellSouth GA 'Pioneers provided a cookout after our event. The food :cost was about ,$40.

Bring ropes for T-shirts help a This was an event that also celebrated the 30th

hauling trash out lot. Did our own Anniversary of the Clean Water Act.

and getting

'press release but

volunteers down did not get

steel? banks.

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Everything seems to be covered. No suggestions.

:t-shirts always JThis section cleaned from the Nancy Creek area

:help, they

almost to the point where the Huntley Hills Civic :

' remind people of Association started last week. Thus, most of this iI

the good work icreek has been cleaned this year. This event also

done and help ;was a celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the

promote future Clean Water Act. This creek was a good one for

!Rivers Alive parents and children to clean

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j Most of our

,are valuable 1Valdosta. The areas cleaned were the Little River !support came fro

assets to the -and the bridge at the nearby Withlacoochee

:the media (radio,

events.

River. Also, S.A.V.E. (Students Against Violating :tv, and

Volunteers

the Environment) at Valdosta State University :newspapers).

always want to participated in our Rivers Alive event by having al

:have something creek cleanup at the creek that flows through the '

:to take home main campus and nearby Drexel Park. Education ,

with them.

:goes along with every event (do's and don't are !

'always taught).

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Peachtree Creek ABSOLUTELY!

Keep Walton Alcovy River and Very much so. This

Beautiful, BSA tributaries

was a really unified

705, Georgia

effort. We partnered

Wildlife

with the GWF and

Federation, Keep Covington/ New

Newton County. We
ihad support from local

ton Beautiful

sponsors. Walton

County sponsors

donated over $1000 to

this effort.

The T-shirts were; Prior to the cleanup, we had breakfast and a brief $1500 from

really great. The I overview. We showed a video about watershed Walton County

:local radio

'protection and had one of our commissioners alone. Snapping

:station really speak to the group of volunteers.

Shoals EMC also

.liked the audio

donated but I

PSA. All in all, '

don't know

everything was

monetary

appreciated and

,amount.

.helpful.

Riverside Military Academy Environmental Group

Limestone Creek yes, more people involved overall this year!

more PR during 1no the event

'volunteers felt that they made a difference and accomplished something good!

yes from Brian Wiley and the Adopt-A-Stream program, they fed all volunteers and gave out water bottles, and I gave out shirts

Ocmulgee River Ocmulgee River Yes, this event was a

Initiative, Macon (Ocmulgee

real help to the

Water Authority, National

Ocmulgee National

Keep Macon- Monument

Monument property

Bibb Beautiful tributary)

and personnel. This

Commission

tributary to the

Ocmulgee River has a

chronic problem with

1delivery of general

,litter from a nearby

j neighborhood.

15 MILE Creek 15 mile creek Keepers

Very much.

More aggressive ,Less this time 'Macon Water Authority and Keep Macon-Bibb Ocmulgee River

promotion of the than in previous 'Beautiful Commission supported the event with Initiative

event at local years. This year supplies and food ($50 total value).

managed the

schools.

we mainly

planning and

'focused on a

implementation

cleanup event;

of the event with

no real

,significant

educational

assistance from

component

Mark Wyzalek

involved.

(Macon Water

Authority) and

,Pat Robinson

(Keep Macon-

Bibb Beautiful

Recruit more Yes

Commission).
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1Th1s cleanup involved several children and they

members!

shared ~eir_ experi~nce with three school classes.

Wheeler County Oconee

Yes. The event was a Try to find a iYes, they were We have participated in the River Clean Up for

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success.

donor to provide very helpful. industrial trash ~ags.

Chattahoochee

Any time folks

We had several

volunteer and perform organizations

a community service, that indicated

the event is a success. that they wanted :

to participate in

our clean up but

no one from

these

organizations

showed. Need to

do more follow

up and be more

pro-active.

Upper Flint River Yes. Our event would Organization is :yes.

Basin

.have been a larger

key to any

success if we had not cleanup.

been blessed with so

much rain in the week

before our cleanup.

The river was too high

for safe canoeing and

the participants had to

go on foot.

Flint River

Yes.

Have the radio ,Yes, somewhat station personnel ; record additional: information about the local cleanup project such as the name of the organization conducting the cleanup, the date: and time, and the; meeting place

the past eleven years. We cleaned Clark's Bluff. i A very popular boat ramp that always seems to .need.cl.eaning.

!Yes. The children were especially helpful and 1 enthusiastic.

Yes. Local 'businesses 1donated goods and money. :Approximately 1$2500.
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Organized cleanup of the Georgia Power Dam iNo monetary

area and riverbanks around the area. The effects ;support accept

,should be that it takes unnecessary time to clean from the

up trash that should not be there in the first place; Pioneers council

The educational activities were few and limited to Iand chapter. I

.the material I got from Rivers Alive.

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value donated

:food and

materials at

;approximately

'$175.00

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Okefenokee Ad ventures, St. Marys River Management Committee, Boy Scout Troop 360

St. Marys River

before the

cle_a11up.

1We effectively had two We may

T-shirts are

Just before the cleanup, a local newspaper ran a Okefenokee

cleanup events. The seriously

always a hit. .page of photographs of the litter at one of the Adventures

second one, a Boy

consider an event Regarding this cleanup sites, prompting the county

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IScout troop cleanup, Ithe last weekend year's design, it commissioners to order that county workers

'had more participants. in September or was very pretty - make river access cleanup a priority. Our 1 Unfortunately, we had the first weekend' so pretty that my cleanups helped underscore a local commitment

provided a cooler ,of drinks for the ''first event.

to "compete" with the lin November to Iwife liked it a ito clean up the St. Marys River. Another article
!Okefenokee Festival, a reduce conflicts whole lot more .highlighting the effort is supposedly forthcoming.:

statewide Sierra Club with the

.than the Boy

conference in Folkston, Okefenokee 'Scouts did. No

and the Georgia-

Festival. More design will

Florida game for local importantly, we please all

'attention and volunteer will begin

audiences, to be

hours. Nonetheless, planning and .sure, but perhaps!

we succeeded in

publicity much ,something a little'

cleaning our county- earlier next year. less pastel and

,owned river accesses

artistic and more

:and the shoreline

realistic/naturali

between them quite

stic?

thoroughly.

Bowdon First Little Tallapoosa Yes. UMC BSA Troop River 153, BSA Pack 153, Girl Scout Troop 560

.More publicity Yes. and freebies for participation.

Upper Tallapoosa Watershed Group

Chattahoochee River

Yes! We unearthed all IWe need access 1Yes.
of our trash at one site, 1to a boat. a boat landing along
the Chattahoochee.

We have cleaned this area twice before, and this time there was a lot less there to be picked up. It ,has been used for decades as a dumping ground. :Hopefully next year, we can choose a different location because it won't need to be cleaned. We ,discussed with the Scouts the effect of the litter on the river, and showed them how their efforts helped _clean up the river.

Soque River Watershed Association

Soque River

Yes but we had a low better planning

tum out due to

on our part

weather and competing

local events

Yes the materials . were most :' h~lpful

Yes, local merchants donated food and materials.

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Heath Creek

Pioneers - Rome

:yes - needed more 'workers

USEPA, Region 4, Water Management Division

Proctor Creek

Definitely because of the number of volunteers and the 'amount of trash collected.

'no - t-shirts were

no

used at the 2nd

cleanup by the

Rome Bellsouth

Pioneers

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IThe t-shirts are a ;We cleaned a very small area because the amount i

real bonus that of trash we had to remove was so large. This !

:reminds people event was held in conjunction with the



:of the day of 1Southeastern Office of the National Wildlife 1service and helps! Federation and its community groups.

promote the
iRivers Alive

KEEP EFFINGHAM

EBENEZER CREEK, PART

THIS WAS OUR FIRST WE NEED TO EVER RIVERS ALIVE. GET MORE

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I :YES, THEY ALL I WE MET AT TOMMY LONG LANDING AND :YES, WE HAD

HELPED.

DIVIDED OUR GROUP UP INTO TEAMS. WE :FOOD AND

BEAUTIFUL, OF SAVANNAH WE HAD MANY

VOLUNTEERS :ESPECIALLY COVERED 6 MILES OF THE CREEK AND PART 'DOOR PRIZES

EFFINGHAM RIVER

'LOCAL SPONSORS MOTIVATED ITHE T-SHIRTS. OF THE RIVER. WE HAD BROCHURES FROM IDONATED. 24

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AND A LOT OF

TO COME OUT 1EVERYONE

DCA ABOUT WATER POLLUTION AND

BUSINESSES

BOARD OF COMMISSIONE RS,

.COMMUNITY

AND HELP.

1SUPPORT. THE DAY

WAS SO SUCCESSFUL

'LOVES TO GET BROCHURES FROM KEEP EFFINGHAM

DONATED

:SHIRTS.
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BEAUTIFUL AS WELL AS LITTER BAGS AND !AROUND $1000 IOTHER GOODIES. WE ALSO HAD PEOPLE :WORTH OF

BACKWATER

THAT WEARE

'PLEDGE TO RECYCLE FOR AMERICA

:FOOD AND

EXPEDITIONS,

PLANNING

RECYCLES DAY. LOCAL BUSINESSES

'PRIZES. THE

INTERNATION AL PAPER

ANOTHER DAY FOR THE SPRING DURING

SPONSORED OUR LUNCH AND WE HAD A !COUNTY ALSO I PICNIC LUNCH. EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY ,SUPPLIED TWO

THE KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL GREAT

,OUR COUNTY COMMISSION, THAT HAS ,HEARD ABOUT THE EVENT HAVE MADE

: EMPLOYEES
!AND TWO

:AMERICAN CLEAN

:COMMENTS ABOUT HOW GLAD THEY ARE :INMATES AS

'UP! ALL OF THE

1IT WAS SO SUCCESSFUL. I THINK NO ONE iWELL AS A

'VOLUNTEERS HAD A

REALIZED THAT WE WOULD COLLECT

:DUMP TRUCK

,BLAST!!!

ALMOST 1300 POUNDS OF TRASH OUT OF TOPICK UP

,THE BEAUTIFUL EBENEZER CREEK. THIS THE TRASH

EVENT WILL BE THE FIRST OF MANY IN EFFINGHAM COUNTY.

.THAT WAS
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CARRIED TO

.THE LANDFILL

jSITEATNO

:CHARGE.

Canoochee Riverkeeper,

Canoochee River, yep. Lotts Creek

we (CRK) need t-shirts are a

1One of the cleanups will hopefully result in a

Donated trash

to start rounding great help. We nature trail and permanent cleanup committee. 1bags and gloves,

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'Keep Bulloch Beautiful, Keep Emanuel Beautiful, Citizens to Save Candler County, Lake Primitive Baptist Church, Ph1Kappa Alpha, EARTH Club (East Georgia College), Boy Scouts Troop #205, Georgia Southern University Recreation Club, Evans County Environmental Education and Code Enforcement, Evans County 4H Club

TRI-COUNTY BAPTIST CHURCH

AMICALOLA RIVER

up site leaders and sponsors in the spring.

'have not used
the PSAyet.
Hope to get radio: I,time text year. ',
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water.

.VERY MUCH SO! WE ALL ENJOYED OURSELYES. SOME OF THE CHILDREN MADE SUCH iPROFOUND STATEMENTS THAT I FELT AS IF WE WERE NOT ONLY CLEANING UP, BUT WE WERE RAISING THE ALREADY HIGH AWARENESS OF THE CHILDREN THAT

YES, THEY DID. WE TALKED ABOUT KEEPING WATCH OVER YES. PIZZA

!OUR PLANET AND RIVERS, ETC.

HUT OONATED

1

1PIZZAFOR

AFTER CLEAN-

UP PARTY,

ABOUT $75.00.

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Georgia

Doolittle Creek

Perimeter

College, The

Decatur Campus

Science Club

(Swamp

Stompers), The

Decatur Campus

Outreach

Committee

THE EARTH IS A BEAUTIFUL HOME, AND THE RIVERS MAKE IT EVEN MORE FUN AND

INTERESTING, SO WE SHOULD SHOW OUR APPRECIATION FOR IT BY NOT THROWING OUR TRASH AND GARBAGE ONTO IT. WE RESPECT OUR HOMES,NOT THROWING TRASH ON OUR FLOOR, SO WHY NOT RESPECT OUR GOD-GIVEN HOME, THE EARTH AND THE RIVERS THEREIN!

Yes, we had 30 participants and removed 27 tires plus about 15 bags of garbage from the wetland.

Register more I sent out the !All participants were students of two professors The support for

early so we can :sponsorship

at GPC, one of them was also participating.

'the event came

publicize the :letters too late so Students came from various campuses of the

from different

event better JI didn't hear backl college so the event provided a stage to find out parties of GPC

throughout the :from local community and ;potential

about and exchange ideas with other campuses. and Decatur 1
We didn't get any volunteers from outside the iCampus. The

secure support of sponsors in time. :college probably due to not publicizing it widely ,Decatur Campus

local sponsors. :Since I registered enough.

Science Club

Most of the

:late I also didn't

:funded

sponsors have a :make use of the

:refreshments for

tum around time !posters or video '

Ithe event ($70,

of more than one' PSA. The T-

:but more than

month.

1shirts definitely :helped, one .participant even

:half was still left over after the
levent), provided

,complimented on

jboots and some

how nice they

1 gloves. The

looked.

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Chattahoochee

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'Participants can 1 wear them and .show them off with pride and promote the Rivers Alive organization.

Physical Plant Operation provided heavy ;I eqmpment (wheelbarrow, rakes, shovels, a rope, a chain, picker uppers), more gloves, and trash bags; they also hauled the garbage off and will dispose of it properly. The GPC Public Relations department photo

Yes it was a

We did not get Some how I

we meet at the county recreation park and then

tremendous success. any posters to missed the

took the group to the site we were cleaning up.

We had parents as well help advertise opportunity to We advertised the event to all the 4-Hers through

at 4-Her's picking up our efforts. I order these

the monthly newsletter and to letters mailed out

the riverbanks. There would definitely supplies. I did to the adult and youth leadership class

was an individual who like to have some get the t-shirts participants. We also had a program in one of the

was visiting the

to put up around and this was a 4-H meetings about water quality and the

area that day and had the county to get nice reward for importance of cleaning up the river.

observed the pick up. more people those helping.

As we were leaving he involved.

We also all wore

came over to the group

them on the

and told him what a

same day to a

good thing they has done. He also told

school meeting
1
to advertise what

them they were good

we had done that

examples of our youth

weekend.

who would be our

leaders of the future.

yes

yes

We all felt that we had made a difference that day no

by helping to clean up along that part of the

Chattahoochee river. Several people that were

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Oconee Council, Oconee River BellSouth Pioneers, Keep Dublin Laurens Beautiful

Georgia College Oconee River,

& State

Broad River,

University Office Rocky Creek,

of Academic Oconee River,

Outreach

Lake Sinclair

Keep South

Chattahoochee

Fulton Beautiful, River

PEQ, Chigger

Ridge Farm,

Let's Go Fishing,

Georgia Power,

DNR, Fulton Co.

Police & Fire

Departments,

walking along the paths in the park that day
__ ___ _ _ ~toe_ped to thank us for cleaning uy the _area.

Most successful ever

Start earlier on ;Yes! Newspaper This group cleaned up the Blackshear Ferry Boat

the publicity and and TV both Landing, mowed 1/2 acre of the grass area,

promotion of the l participated

trimmed the weeds on the banks, trimmed the

event

overhang of trees, and picked up the 1/ 4 mi. of

entrance road to the area.

Yes! The event was a 1success for many reasons: Most obvious - we cleaned up some areas that really needed it. But we also heightened awareness of the individuals volunteering as well as (hopefully) the users of these areas. It is amazing to see what an impact so few people can have in such a short time while cleaning and that ,influence grows exponentially as the volunteers share their experiences with others .and encourage them to litter less at our

IT-shirts are always a great :incentive for college students and we found that advertising for the event
Ibrought about a
!lot of response! I

We offered the clean-ups as part of several classes' and this not only increased awareness on the part of the students, but also encouraged them to do similar programs with groups they will work I with in the future. Other clean-ups were offered , on campus as an opportunity to get involved or toi complete service hours. The effects it had on the community are noted in the number of trash bags we collected. The areas were so much cleaner when we left and we hope that this will encourage users of these areas to help them remain this way.

_wat~~ay_i;! _ --~-- _ Yes, everyone said they None at this !Yes. enjoyed it and learned time. Maybe a lot. We had people later after our from Trust For Public local meeting. Lands and top environmental people from Georgia and Oglethorpe Power Companies.

Everyone met at lower boat ramp in So. Fulton jNot this year but County (our organization initiated building of !usually we have this ramp). We bused them up to GA Power donations from Plant Atkinson where we had about l/2 hour of private education and video and what they should look ,companies. for. They boarded boats and floated down river where there was a fresh fish fry at the end of the trip. The fish were no from the Chattahoochee. A good time was had by all!

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