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Renew Our Rivers Seeks Volunteers For Cleanup Days In 2022
The Alabama Power-sponsored Renew our Rivers campaign has released its 2022 schedule of watershed cleanup days throughout Alabama.
BIRMINGHAM, AL — Renew Our Rivers, an Alabama Power-sponsored initiative to clean up the state's rivers and watersheds, has released its cleanup schedule for the year, and seeks volunteers to help with the cause.
Renew Our Rivers began in 2000 as a community river cleanup organized by Alabama Power employees at Plant Gadsden who were concerned about littering along the Coosa River. Today, Renew Our Rivers is one of the nation’s largest river system cleanups.
With the help of community partners, volunteers and organizations, Alabama Power has coordinated about 120,000 volunteers and removed more than 16 million pounds of trash from Southeastern waterways.
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Cleanup days for 2022 have been scheduled as such:
March 5: Valley Creek (Adger, Birmingham, Bessemer and Lipscomb)
Contact: www.jcdh.org/wpd
March 5: Lake Eufaula (Chattahoochee River)
Contact: Brad Moore at bmooreless@gosuto.com
March 12: Valley Creek (Oak Grove)
Contact: www.jcdh.org/wpd
TBD: Valley Creek (Providence)
Contact: www.jcdh.org/wpd
March 22-23: Mobile River (Plant Barry)
Contact: Jeff Reeves
251-829-2746
March 26-April 2: Logan Martin (Coosa River)
Contact: Bud Kitchin
256-239-0242
March 26: Minor Heights Community at Village Creek
Contact: Hana Berres
hana.berres@jccal.org
205-325-8741
April 2: Lay Lake at Plant Gaston (Coosa River)
Contact: Jodi Webb
205-669-8360
April 2-10: Lay Lake (Coosa River)
Contact: Judy Jones
205-669-4865
April 22: Smith Lake (Cullman County)
Contact: Jim Murphy
205-529-5981
April 23: Lake Jordan (Coosa River)
Contact: Brenda Basnight
334-478-3388
April 28-29: Smith Lake (Winston County)
Contact: Jim Eason
msgjeason@yahoo.com
April 30: Weiss Lake
Contact: Sam Marko
404-626-8594
May 7: Lake Mitchell (Coosa River)
Contact: Dale Vann
205-910-3713
TBD: Plant Gorgas (Mulberry Fork)
Contact: John Pate
205-686-2324
johpate@southernco.com
May 17-18: Smith Lake (Walker County)
Contact: Roger Treglown
205-300-5253
Aug. 6 (tentative): Holt Lake (Black Warrior River)
Contact: Becky Clark
205-799-2449
TBD: Upper Tallapoosa River
Contact: Lex Brown
256-239-6399
Aug. 12: Plant Miller (Locust Fork)
Contact: Marybeth Vines
205-488-2033
mewillis@southernco.com
Aug. 13: Valley Creek (Fairfield, Midfield, Hueytown, Pleasant Grove and Brighton)
Contact: www.jcdh.org/wpd
Sept. 9-10 (tentative): Village Creek
Contact: Yohance Owens
205-798-0087
Sept. 16: Smith Lake (Cullman County)
Contact: Jim Murphy
205-529-5981
Sept. 20-21: Smith Lake (Walker County)
Contact: Roger Treglown
205-300-5253
Sept. 22-23: Smith Lake (Winston County)
Contact: Jim Eason
msgjeason@yahoo.com
Sept. 26-Oct. 1: Neely Henry Lake (Coosa River)
Contact: Lisa Dover
256-549-0900
TBD: Lake Demopolis
Contact: Jennifer Cassity
jcassity@southernco.com
Oct. 4: Dog River (Mobile County)
Contact: Catie Boss
251-829-2146
clboss@southernco.com
Oct. 15: Lake Mitchell (Coosa River)
Contact: Dale Vann
205-910-3713
Oct. 25-27: R.L. Harris (Tallapoosa River-Lake Wedowee)
Contact: Sheila Smith
205-396-5093
Marlin Glover
770-445-0824
Nov. 4-5: Lake Martin (Tallapoosa River)
Contact: John Thompson
334-399-3289
www.lmra@lmra.info
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