Clean Up Your Favorite River - May 14-22!

The National River Cleanup Week this year is May 14-22nd, and we encourage all paddlers to participate in this great program.  Just check out the website (www.nationalrivercleanup.com) and get in touch with the good folks organizing the event.  They will get you all the stuff you need to organize your own river clean up or to participate in one that has already been organized. 

This year AW doing something a little different  

American Whitewater knows that paddlers rarely litter, and are a major part of the efforts to keep our rivers and creeks trash-free, but this year we want to find out just how many paddlers are taking part in the National River Cleanup.  Right before the Cleanup week we'll be posting a short questionaire on our website, with an email address to send completed questionaires to.  Our goal is to find out how many whitewater paddlers are participating in stream cleanups, and how many miles of streams benefit from these efforts.   

If you clean up a stream - PLEASE send us an email letting us know after the cleanup week, we'll let you know the email address in a subsequent web article coming in early may. 

Being a good river steward means more than just minimizing your own impact - it is also helping the river deal with the impacts of other less considerate folks.  So fill your boat with drink bottles, pull those plastic bags out of riparian trees, and report those refrigerators!  Even wild rivers occassionally have trash blown and thrown into them - so pick any stream - and scour those eddies! 

Plan your clean up today - Rally your friends

Your River Will Thank You

www.nationalrivercleanup.com