HELP CLEAN THE CLINCH-JULY 23RD, 2016!!

The Big Cleanup registration form and the Contact Us form are both out of order. While we work to fix them, please email us at clinchriverchapter@gmail.com to let us know you plan to register. Send us your name, email address and phone number—we’ll let you know as soon as the forms are working again. Sorry for the inconvenience!

This year’s fourth annual cleanup will be Saturday, July 23, again starting with breakfast at the picturesque Museum of Appalachia (expenses of the meal are supported by a grant from the Tennessee Valley Authority). From there, volunteers will set out in teams to attack debris along the Clinch. Above the water line, workers walk along riverside roads and through parking areas, gathering trash. In shallow water, volunteers wear waders patrol for litter. In kayaks and canoes, volunteers work to clean shorelines and shallow water where there is no public access by road. Those in powerboats haul tires and other items from the depths.

Support for all the teams is supplied by volunteering emergency medical people, ham radio operators, tire disposal professionals and workers with trucks who collect and dispose of filled trash bags.