21st Annual

Russian River Watershed Cleanup

Sonoma County, California

Saturday, September 27th and Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Planning Meetings are being held now!

We Need Volunteers to Help Organize the Effort, Join Us Cleaning Up in a Day On, Around and About the River!

Registration Opens July 1

Join in a Day On, Around and About the River

In 2006 over 300 volunteers, working on the river banks, in canoes
provided by Burke's Canoes of Forestville, SOAR Inflatables and River's Edge Kayaks and Canoes of Healdsburg
and in privately owned boats, removed over 8,000 lbs of trash from the river.

 

Trash collected ranged from candy wrappers and beverage containers to scrap metal and automobile parts











Over 20 cubic yards of glass, plastic and aluminum were reclaimed for recycling










163 Tires were removed from the River

4,600 Pounds of scrap metal was from the River












JOIN US: On Saturdaycrews will be cleaning beaches on
Foot or along 4 to 8 mile sections of the river by canoe.

-

On Sunday volunteers will be consolidating the collected material
And reclaiming the recyclables.


Registration for 2008 starts July 1, 2008

>

Planning Meetings for Clean-up 2008 Start in February, 2008.
We need your help!
Contact Cleanup Coordinator Bob Clemens
or
or Secretary Carl Inglin



The Annual Russian River Watershed Cleanup
Is a production of

The Russian River Watershed Cleanup Committee


In Association with and with Financial and Material Support from:

Sonoma County Water Agency
Brelje & Race Consulting Engineers
Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
State Coastal Conservancy
Sequoia Paddlers Section of the Sierra Club
SOAR Inflatables
Burke's Canoes
Rivers Edge Kayak and Canoe
Empire Waste Management
Sunrise Garbage Service
Garbage Reincarnation
Integrated Waste Division of Sonoma County
Guerneville Graphics and Printing
Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods
West Sonoma County Disposal Service
Sonoma County Youth Probation



The Russian River Watershed Cleanup is a Project of the Sonoma County Conservation Council