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Volunteers to clean up Lake Horton

Flint River area residents will wade around Lake Horton Oct. 15 as part of the continuing statewide campaign to clean and preserve over 70,000 miles of Georgia’s rivers and streams.

Part of Rivers Alive, a joint program of DNR’s Environmental Protection Division and Keep Georgia Beautiful, the Thirteenth Annual Georgia Waterway Cleanup is expected to once again be the largest single volunteer effort to beautify Georgia’s water resources.

Cleanup volunteers will gather at 9 a.m. Oct. 15 at Lake Horton. They will be joining an estimated 28,000 other volunteers statewide participating in the Annual River Cleanup. During the month of October over 170 other cleanups will collect trash and other debris in streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands from the Coosa River in North Georgia to the Okefenokee Swamp in the South.

During the 2004 River Cleanup, more than 24,000 volunteers cleaned over 1,400 miles of waterways and removed over 380,000 pounds of trash and garbage including tires, children bikes, a safe and telephone booth from the State’s waterways, according to Kimberly Morris-Zarneke, coordinator of Georgia Adopt-A-Stream. Morris-Zarneke expects this year’s River Cleanup to involve hundreds more volunteers and to continue to be the State’s largest volunteer effort to beautify Georgia’s water resources.

This event is sponsored by fifteen corporations including Ocean level sponsor of Georgia Power, Lake level sponsor of The Coca-Cola Company, and River level sponsors of BellSouth, Georgia Pacific Corporation, International Paper, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Meadwestvaco Coated Board Division, Miller Brewing Company, Mohawk Industries, Inc, Oglethorpe Power Corporation, Plum Creek Timber Company, Temple-Inland, and United Parcel Service, Inc. Contributors to Rivers Alive include Brown and Caldwell, and Ornstein-Schuler Capital Partners, LLC.

Other sponsors of the statewide campaign include Georgia Adopt-A-Stream, Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division, Keep Georgia Beautiful and Affiliates, Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Clean Coast, Inc., Clean Water Campaign, The Coca-Cola Company, Columbus Waterworks, Georgia Land Trust, Georgia Project WET/River of Words, Georgia Power, Georgia River Network, International Paper, Lake Lanier Association, Meadwestvaco, National Park Service - Chattahoochee Recreational Area, Oxbow Meadows Environmental Learning Center, Peavine Watershed Alliance, and dozens of other local organizations will be sponsoring individual cleanups around the State.

To get to Lake Horton, go south from Fayetteville on Ga. Highway 92 and turn right on Antioch Road, which will take you straight to the lake.

To volunteer for the Lake Horton cleanup, contact Alfreda Paschal at agpalpha@bellsouth.net. For more information about efforts in other areas or the statewide campaign, call 404-675-1636 or go to www.riversalive.org.