Clean Ups

RIVER CLEAN UPS

This involves regularly cleaning up the watersheds to ensure-that garbage or debris does not-block- waterways and encourage flooding.

Non-point source pollution is pollution that can’t be traced back to a specific location and is the greatest threat to our waterways today. Participating in a river cleanup with your group, neighbours, friends or family can help protect the health of water by preventing pollution from many sources such as land runoff, precipitation and more.

Adopters can adopt the entire river or part thereof since continuous maintenance of some rivers may be a costly undertaking.

How does it work?

• Pick a date, time and location for the river Cleanup.
• Coordinate with your group, neighbours, family or friends by inviting them to attend.
• On the day of the cleanup, bring trash bags and gloves to the site.
• Divide the participants into smaller groups if the area is large to cover more ground.
• Consider making the cleanup a contest between smaller groups. Whoever collects the most trash or the weirdest item wins!
• If you have a scale, consider weighing the trash collected after the cleanup. Then you can tell others how many pounds of trash you collected to help keep pollutants out of water resources.

Gather your groups and let’s clean up our rivers!