Rivers Alive | Keep Bulloch Beautiful

RIVERS ALIVE 2010-TBA

Rivers Alive is Georgia's annual volunteer waterway cleanup event that targets all waterways in the state including streams, rivers, lakes, beaches, and wetlands. The mission of Rivers Alive is to create awareness of and involvement in the preservation of Georgia's water resources. KBB is actively involved in Rivers Alive and focuses these efforts on the Ogeechee River and its tributaries. The most recent Rivers Alive event was held on October 24 , 2009.

"I want to personally and on behalf of the Keep Bulloch Beautiful Board thank each volunteer for dedicating their time to volunteer with Rivers Alive! Rivers Alive has been conducted in Bulloch County for 7 years now and has continued to increase the health and beauty of the Ogeechee River by removing litter and debris from it each year. This year showed some GREAT and interesting trends:

2006: 120 volunteers, 30 miles cleaned, 3520lbs of litter removed

2007:100 volunteers, 5 miles cleaned, 3900lbs of litter removed

2008: 98 volunteers, 3 miles cleaned, 2500lbs of litter removed

2009: 66 volunteers, 5 miles cleaned, 200 lbs of litter removed!!!

Of course, many factors go into a litter cleanup such as exact areas cleaned, illegal dump sites found, number of volunteers, weather, area covered, and more. Nonetheless, there is no hiding the fact that there was significantly less litter and debris to be cleaned this year. This information ultimately tells us that efforts are being made and attitudes are being changed toward the issue of litter. The changing of attitudes brings about behavior change, and people are clearly beginning to make that important behavior change of littering less.

We should thank and commend our local boaters and fisherman for doing such a wonderful job of keeping those boat landings clean. Bravo!

Again, thank you to the volunteers to came out to help. You guys are the driving force behind Keep Bulloch Beautiful and without you, we wouldn’t have the manpower to get out there and make a difference!"

-Jenna Lawson, KBB Director