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Missouri River Relief is bringing barges upriver to Jefferson City to start a month-long voyage removing tons of trash and debris from the shores of the Missouri River. This endeavor — the Big Muddy Clean Sweep — is the flagship project of River Relief’s 10th Anniversary celebration.
Missouri River Relief is operating two barges and a towboat to haul recovered debris along the 143-mile reach from the state capital to the Mississippi River. The Clean Sweep voyage will start with a community-based cleanup with hundreds of local volunteers on Saturday in Jefferson City and will finish Saturday, Oct. 29, with a community-based cleanup at the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area near St. Louis.
The collected trash and debris will be hauled on a sand barge and unloaded at terminals on the Mississippi River for recycling or disposal at landfills.
Both barges will be pushed by a towboat named “River Cleanup” provided by Living Lands & Waters, an equipment-based organization similar to MoRR that conducts cleanups on the Mississippi, Illinois, Ohio and many other rivers.
The LL&W founder, Chad Pregracke, inspired the creation of MoRR at the first big Missouri River cleanup in 2001.
A Clean Sweep cleanup was planned in Kansas City, but due to high river levels and flooding this year, the cleanup took place on land. More than 250 volunteers cleaned up an estimated 7 tons of trash from 11 sites, including several public parks ravaged by flooding.
To learn more, visit www.riverrelief.org.
Missouri River Relief is bringing barges upriver to Jefferson City to start a month-long voyage removing tons of trash and debris from the shores of the Missouri River. This endeavor — the Big Muddy Clean Sweep — is the flagship project of River Relief’s 10th Anniversary celebration.
Missouri River Relief is operating two barges and a towboat to haul recovered debris along the 143-mile reach from the state capital to the Mississippi River. The Clean Sweep voyage will start with a community-based cleanup with hundreds of local volunteers on Saturday in Jefferson City and will finish Saturday, Oct. 29, with a community-based cleanup at the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area near St. Louis.
The collected trash and debris will be hauled on a sand barge and unloaded at terminals on the Mississippi River for recycling or disposal at landfills.
Both barges will be pushed by a towboat named “River Cleanup” provided by Living Lands & Waters, an equipment-based organization similar to MoRR that conducts cleanups on the Mississippi, Illinois, Ohio and many other rivers.
The LL&W founder, Chad Pregracke, inspired the creation of MoRR at the first big Missouri River cleanup in 2001.
A Clean Sweep cleanup was planned in Kansas City, but due to high river levels and flooding this year, the cleanup took place on land. More than 250 volunteers cleaned up an estimated 7 tons of trash from 11 sites, including several public parks ravaged by flooding.
To learn more, visit www.riverrelief.org.
