Volunteer for Riversweep!

August 25, 2022

Sign up today for Catawba Riversweep, the annual basin-wide cleanup of the Catawba River, our lakes, and streams!

  • Saturday, October 1
  • 9 AM – 12 PM

You can choose from more than 50 volunteer sites throughout our river basin. We’ve got sites on all of our major lakes, urban streams, and river segments. Some volunteers will clean up trash on land at local parks, greenways, and boat accesses. Others will use their boats to shuttle trash and volunteers around our lake shorelines and islands. There will even be some volunteers who use their kayaks and canoes to get trash out of narrow creeks and coves. Volunteers who sign up by September 18 will be guaranteed a 2022 Riversweep t-shirt!

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Other ways to support Riversweep:

Sponsors and Partners

The presenting sponsor of Catawba Riversweep 2022 is the Catawba-Wateree Water Management Group!

By bringing together water utilities from North Carolina and South Carolina as well as Duke Energy, the Catawba-Wateree Water Management Group strives to find innovative water resource management strategies to extend our shared water supply and protect the ecological integrity of the Catawba-Wateree River Basin. Special thanks to our t-shirt sponsor, Recover Brands! Recover is a local, sustainable apparel manufacturer. Riversweep t-shirts are made from recycled materials. Recover eco-tees are made from 8 plastic bottles!

Lake Partners

For a full list of our our nonprofit, business, and government partners, see catawbariversweep.org/partners.

Interested in Riversweep sponsorship? Contact diana@catawbariverkeeper.org for details.

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