Trash pile collected by volunteers in 2013 in Marydel
Project Clean Stream annual cleanup to be held Saturday, April 5th – volunteer to make our streams cleaner and safer.
Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy (MRC) is again recruiting local groups, businesses and individuals to help clean up our Midshore waterways.
On April 5th from 9AM to Noon, Project Clean Stream will once again remove trash from our local waterways. Throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed, thousands of people will be participating in this annual event coordinated by the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.
Throughout Talbot, Dorchester, Caroline and Queen Anne’s County there will be over fifteen Project Clean Stream Sites this year. Groups already signed up include Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Girl Scouts, Country School, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Easton High School, Masonic Lodge, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Easton and Eastern Shore Land Conservancy.
Last year Midshore county’s approximately 300 volunteers, worked at 23 different locations to clean up our streams. They collected over 10,000 pounds of trash.
If you would like to create a team or volunteer on an existing team please contact Suzanne Sullivan at MRC on 443 385 0511 or [email protected]
In addition if you know of a public site that needs to be cleaned in the Choptank, Miles or Wye river watersheds please contact Suzanne Sullivan.
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