September 25: Willamette River and Canoe Canal Clean-Up

Join Nearby Nature for a huge group clean-up of Alton Baker Park! Volunteers will walk along the canoe canal and pick up litter and recyclables to keep them from going downstream to the Willamette and ultimately to the Pacific Ocean.  Nearby Nature will provide tools and gloves to pick up canal-side trash, and volunteers are welcome to bring their own canoes to retrieve trash from within the canoe canal. Meet at the Park Host Residence.

This project is part of SOLV's annual fall clean-up program. To register to participate, click here. For more information about the event, see below:

This year SOLV’s Fall Beach Cleanup is going statewide to become the SOLV Beach and Riverside Cleanup! For the first time, thousands of volunteers will clean up Oregon’s beaches from the California border to the Columbia River – and also work along rivers, creeks, lakes and other waterways throughout Oregon and SW Washington - improving the quality of water that we all use for drinking, recreation, agriculture and more. We know that most of the trash in the ocean originates from inland waterways, streets, parking lots, and storm drains. SOLV and our partners recognize this "land-sea-connection" and the urgent need to act now to address the growing amount of trash within ocean waters. To combat this issue in Oregon, SOLV is combining its coastal efforts to keep our beaches clean with plans to cut off trash and improve water quality upstream - before it reaches the beach! This statewide event will empower volunteers to take local action to address a very global problem.