A Day on the River

2008 River Cleanup in Lumpkin County on the Chestatee and Etowah rivers:
Saturday October 11 and 25 (9 AM to 3PM)
Sponsored by the World Class Learning Alliance (worldclass.net) and Lumpkin Coalition (lumpkincoalition.org)Contact Joe Adams for more information at 706 265-5502
***Saturday October 11th will meet at Revival Gardens (390 Tom Bell Odom Rd) at 9AM sharp and focus efforts on the
upper reaches of the Etowah River (namely Hightower and Jay Bridges), eat lunch and follow-up with an invertebrate sampling
for Georgia Adopt-a-Steam in the afternoon.
***Saturday, October 25, meeting at the Hilyer's house on Hwy 9, a quarter mile beyond the Etowah river bridge on the left, will focus downriver on the Etowah river from Hwy 52, Hwy 9, and Castleberry Bridges; as well as locations on the Chestatee River.
***Participants are encouraged to bring a change of shoes and clothes, drinking water, snacks, and their own canoes if they are confident paddling and navigating in the river for trash collecting. (Navigating for trash is not for the novice paddler!) People without excellent paddling skills will work the banks by foot.

Thanks to everyone who helped with this year's Rivers Alive
clean-up events this year. During the two days we scoured the river banks
of the Etowah and Chestatee rivers, over 55 participants
collected over a ton of garbage and twelve tires. On October 11,
Judy Pyle's girl scout troop helped the Etowah River Critters Club
collect 275 pounds of garbage at Hightower and Jay bridges on the Etowah.
After a Revival Gardens lunch, they then conducted an invertebrate sampling using
Georgia-Adopt-a-Stream protocols to discover that the river was in
"excellent" health that day.
The heaviest work was done by the Lumpkin Coalition on the 25th
when 22 participants gathered 1749lbs of garbage and 12 tires. We were rewarded
with a barbecue lunch and bon fire at the Hilyers' afterward.

We look forward to seeing you all again next year, or at an invertebrate
sampling with the Etowah River Critters Club on the second Saturday
every month.