Volunteers are needed for the sixth annual Big Clinch River Cleanup on Saturday, July 21.

The event will start at 8 a.m. July 21, with breakfast at the Museum of Appalachia; cleanup activities will be completed about 2 p.m.

Everyone who enjoys the river is invited to help remove litter from the Clinch River and its banks. Volunteers can help in several ways:
* Above the water line, workers walk along riverside roads and through parking areas, gathering trash.
* Volunteers wearing waders patrol for litter in shallow water.
* In kayaks and canoes, volunteers work to clean shorelines and shallow water where there is no public access by road.
* In powerboats, volunteers 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.

To register as a volunteer for the 2018 Big Clinch River Cleanup, click here .

Last year’s cleanup event resulted in 71 bags of trash, 75 tires and nearly 2,200 pounds of litter being pulled from the waters of the Clinch River.  If you have any questions, contact Rusty Hallett at hallettrusty@gmail.com or (859) 227-1227, or Dave Easter at dleaster660@gmail.com or (859) 608-7090.