Coastal Cleanup Day at Lake Tahoe Sept 17
Posted on September 1, 2011
Filed Under Lake Tahoe Eco-Tips
While we all do our part every day, it’s fun to tap into the energy of the biggest CleanUP day of the year with the entire world.
Volunteers are needed to help keep our waterways clean and blue by participating in the 27th Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day at Lake Tahoe on Saturday, September 17, 2011.
What a great excuse to go to the beach!
In 2010, over 80,000 volunteers picked up over 1.3 million pounds of debris — from small cigarette butts and plastic pieces to refrigerators, pianos, and automobiles. Pianos? Sad…but true.
Come out for a few hours to help preserve the shores of beautiful Lake Tahoe, and know your efforts add to this global event of action and awareness on combating marine debris. Volunteers are needed on foot and in the water (in boats, kayaks, etc.) to collect trash from Tahoe’s north, south and east shore beaches. Trash bags will be provided. Please bring work gloves. This event is sponsored locally by the Tahoe Water Suppliers Association, IVGID Waste Not, Clean Tahoe Program and the League to Save Lake Tahoe.
North Lake Tahoe – 2 locations
Trash bags will be provided. Please bring work gloves. All volunteers should wear comfortable shoes and bring a water bottle and snack.
Incline Village and East Shore beaches, 9am to noon
sponsored by the Tahoe Water Suppliers Association, IVGID Waste Not
Meet at IVGID Recreation Center (980 Incline Way, Incline Village, NV) For more information: IVGID Waste Not Program – call (775) 832-1284.
Kings Beach, California – 9am to noon
sponsored by the League to Save Lake Tahoe
Kings Beach Recreation Area
For more information or to sign-up, contact the League to Save Lake Tahoe at (530) 541-5388 or events@keeptahoeblue.org.
South Lake Tahoe:
Six regional organizations have joined together to put on the Cleanup Day in South Lake Tahoe. You can either choose to help at one of the 13 clean up sites, or you can drop by El Dorado Beach in South Lake Tahoe to be assigned a location at 9am on Saturday morning. Click here to see a list of locations and to register now.
Please bring your own bag (or bucket), gloves and water. All volunteers are invited to a Cleanup celebration afterward with food and drinks, live music and raffle prizes.
For more details, call Ellen Nunes at Clean Tahoe at (530) 544.4210.
From Baltimore to Bangladesh, Coastal Cleanup is the world’s most astounding grassroots cleanup effort. Every year in September, more than half-a-million people in 100 countries remove millions of pounds of trash from beaches and waterways all over the world—and collect data on what they find— the world’s largest volunteer effort of its kind.
In 2009, over 80,000 volunteers came out to their beaches, lakes, rivers, creeks, and streams to show their support and help clean up trash on their shorelines. These dedicated volunteers picked up over 1.3 million pounds of debris — from small cigarette butts and plastic pieces to refrigerators, pianos, and automobiles. The results are impressive, and are accomplished only through the dedication of thousands of volunteers and the hundreds of non-profit organizations and local government agencies that help organize individual cleanups in community after community around California.
Please come out for a few hours to help preserve the shores of beautiful Lake Tahoe, and know your efforts add to this global event of action and awareness on combating marine debris.
Sailing photo by Mark Edwards, Tikiglow Media Services
