Renew Our Rivers fall cleanup season revs up Sept. 18 at Smith Lake

By: Donna Cope

With temperatures dropping slightly, volunteers are returning to Alabama lakes to help with Renew Our Rivers (ROR) cleanups for fall.

Since cleanups began 25 years ago at Plant Gadsden on Lake Neely Henry, more than 133,000 volunteers have removed 16.8 million pounds of trash in ROR events on lakes and waterways across the Southeast.

Now in its silver anniversary year – with the first cleanup at Valley Creek on March 1, 2024 – more than 1,600 ROR volunteers have thus far removed 66 tons of trash.

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