Annual Renew Our Rivers Cleanup Continues Through Saturday

In February, Renew Our Rivers kicked off its 20th year of lake and river cleanups. More than 30 cleanups are planned in 2019 across Alabama.

Over the weekend, volunteers braved the wind and the rain and gathered at the State Boat Docks in Cedar Bluff to help do their part in ensuring Weiss Lake is and remains clean. The cleanup will continue through Saturday in Cherokee County.

Event organizers would like to thank Sheriff Jeff Shaver and the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office along with Director Shawn Rogers and the Cherokee County Emergency Management Agency for their assistance with the event.

Cherokee County Administrator Daniel Steele said that a total weight of trash collected will be available as soon as the cleanup is complete. In 2018 alone, 4,000 volunteers removed more than 268,000 pounds of trash from Alabama lakes, rivers and shorelines.

Renew Our Rivers began in the spring of 2000 with Gene Phifer’s vision to clean a stretch of the Coosa River near Alabama Power’s Plant Gadsden, where he worked. Since then, more than 117,000 volunteers have joined the effort and collected more than 15.5 million pounds of trash and debris from waterways across the Southeast.

Renew Our Rivers is one of many initiatives in which Alabama Power partners with others to promote conservation and environmental stewardship in communities across the state. Please see below the 2019 schedule of Renew Our Rivers cleanups.

For updates to the schedule, please visit https://apcshorelines.com/blog/.

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