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Volunteers Needed: Chesapeake Bay Project Clean Stream In MD, PA, NY
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The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is organizing the 8th annual Project Clean Stream, one of the Chesapeake Bay’s largest coordinated stream cleanups in April.
Project Clean Stream will take place from 9 a.m. to 12 Noon, at more than 145 stream cleanup sites in Central Maryland, the Eastern Shore, Pennsylvania and New York on April 2.
The Alliance increasingly partners with environmental non-profit organizations, City Recreation & Parks Departments, and larger corporations in an attempt to expand the cleanup effort each year. Project Clean Stream is coordinated to connect individuals with their local watershed association and to help us make our local streams, wooded areas, and shorelines safer, cleaner, and more beautiful.
As the Alliance expands the efforts of Project Clean Stream outside of central Maryland, we are asking if watershed organizations will aid in managing cleanup sites and volunteers. Project Clean Stream requires volunteers on two levels.
First, Site Captains lead cleanups and orient volunteers at their respective site. The Alliance provides Site Captains with assistance as needed, including training, organizational checklists, some cleanup materials (trash bags, gloves, first aid kit), and necessary forms. Secondly, we need a general volunteer crew for stream cleanup.
The Alliance provides insurance for volunteers and some funding for sites/watershed groups. In addition, a potential bonus of $75.00 per cleanup site is provided to each organization.
Project Clean Stream volunteers improve their community by removing trash, tires and other discarded items from area streams and nearby roadsides.
In 2010, over 3,600 volunteers removed more than 118,000 pounds of trash and debris from area streams!
This year, we hope to recruit 4,000 volunteers, remove 150,000 pounds of trash and register 145 cleanup sites. Without your assistance, we cannot reach our goals.
Project Clean Stream is coordinated by the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and supported by a grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust and Baltimore Life Companies. Partnering organizations include local watershed associations and regional county staff.
To volunteer, contact Dan Ellis at 443-949-0575 or send email to: dellis@allianceforthebay.org. Additional information is also available at the Project Clean Stream webpage.
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2/14/2011 |
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