Date(s): Mar 27, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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2021 Event is March 27, 9am – noon.
Two sign-ups and ways to jump in:
– Sweep the Hooch clean-up volunteer
– Volunteer to help coordinate workers @ our three (3) sites at MCP
Registration is OPEN thru Chattahoochee Riverkeepers website to join a clean-up site – https://chattahoochee.org/sweep-the-hooch/
Sign-up Genius slots are for helping MCPC rollout our clean-up sites @ MCP – https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c054aaaaf23aafa7-sweep
Sweep the Hooch is an annual day of service to the Chattahoochee River watershed. 11th year overall and 4th YEAR AT MCP!! We’re mobilizing volunteers on foot, waders or kayak/canoe paddlers to remove trash at locations throughout the watershed. Sweep the Hooch brings people together to give back to the mighty river that gives us so much.
The Nancy Creek Watershed flows directly into the Chattahoochee River WS, and we’ve set-up three (3) clean-up locations.
1 – MCP Lake **Calling all Paddlers and Waders – we’ll work on the lake with as many boats as we can float. And, we need the fly-fisherpersons to come out with the waders in some of the shallows and walkers for items we can reach on the shorelines
2 – North Fork Nancy Creek wetlands above the Lake – KEY SPOT
3 – Nancy Creek – main channel and Spillway by the football, softball and baseball fields Focus is on trash removal
• WALKERS are land-based volunteers who will pick up trash and perform trail maintenance.
• WADERS are volunteers equipped with waders or wading boots and are needed at select sites. These volunteers will collect trash from the shallow water areas, and from areas on the river bank that are accessed most easily from the river and streamside trails. Volunteers must provide their own waders.
• PADDLERS will utilize kayaks/canoes. Volunteers must provide their own kayaks and/or canoes.
Sign-up thru the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper’s website – REGISTER NOW button. https://chattahoochee.org/sweep-the-hooch/
Please pass around and invite your friends, family, schools, scouts, churches, cul-de-sacs and beyond!!!
Let me know if you have questions
Steve Peters Murphey Candler Park Conservancy, Volunteer Coordinator, 404-313-4348 cell stevebp@bellsouth.net
