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500 Ohio River Sweep Volunteers Collect Over 65 Tons Of Trash
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More than 500 volunteers, at 20 cleanup sites, picked up more than 65 tons of trash and nearly 200 tires as part of the 21st annual River Sweep in Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Washington and Westmoreland counties..
“It’s the combination of community groups, churches, scout troops, sportsmen’s groups, concerned citizens and corporate volunteers who all come together to make an impact on our waterways,” Pennsylvania River Sweep Coordinator Betsy Mallison said. “The River Sweep builds awareness of our waterways. Families came out today to teach their children about giving back and to help Dad take out the trash as we cleaned up our area streams and rivers.”
The River Sweep, an annual six-state effort to clean up litter and debris in the Ohio River watershed, is the largest organized volunteer river cleanup effort in the country. The event winds through Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia and Illinois, covering more than 2,400 miles of shoreline.
In Pennsylvania, it is sponsored by the Department of Environmental Protection, the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission and a number of Pennsylvania corporate sponsors including Duquesne Light, Dominion Foundation, Duke Energy, Koppers, PPG Industries Foundation, Neville Chemical Company, Talisman Energy USA and Babst, Calland, Clements and Zomnir, P.C.
Many of the companies sponsored cleanup crews as part of the event.
Last year, more than 600 volunteers collected 45 tons of the trash and debris along the Ohio, Allegheny, Beaver, Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers and their tributaries at 23 cleanup sites. Volunteers received trash bags and a souvenir T-shirt.
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6/27/2011 |
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