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Volunteer for Riversweep!

Aug 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.

05 Apr, 2024
Happy Earth Month! While every month is Earth Month here at Catawba Riverkeeper, we’re excited about the extra attention and enthusiasm for protecting our local environment that comes every April! Throughout this month, we're amplifying our efforts to spread awareness and provide a variety of options for you to get out and learn from, engage in, or advocate for the preservation, protection, and restoration of our shared waterways. Because of that, our calendar is jam-packed with public and private cleanups, guided tours, education programing, outreach events, and fun activities at Confluence & The River Room all month long. Just take a look at some of the events we have going on! In honor of Earth Month, we hope that you engage with us in some of these events by volunteering your time to clean up our water, learning more about issues affecting our water, and sharing our work and mission with other people as ambassadors. If you'd like to make an Earth Month contribution to Catawba Riverkeeper, you can give to our Spring Education Appeal, help us purchase a new Catawba Riverkeeper vehicle, or attend our Ambassador Training and represent us at events throughout the year. Our work is not possible without the support of people like you. We are only a drop in the bucket of worldwide water conservation efforts, but with the support of people like you, we can make mighty waves of change! Thank you in advance for your support, and happy Earth Month!
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