New River CleanUp/ Ashe County, NC

We will meet at the junction of Deep Ford Road and Parker Eller Road and take out just past N Fork New River Road bridge on Silas Creek. This is about a 2 – 3 hour trip. BYO craft if you have it.  BYO PFD. Snacks and drinks provided.

Greater Lansing Area Development invited New River Conservancy and Keep Ashe Beautiful to participate in this clean-up.   Shout out to our partners and we’ll be there to help!

River CleanUps are crucial to protecting the waters, woodlands, and wildlife of the New River Watershed. Pollution in the New can harm physical habitat, transport chemical pollutants, threaten aquatic life, and interfere with human uses of the river. However each year we get help from our River Cleanup Volunteers, to remove trash from the river.

With your help we have cleaned over 1,500 miles of river and removed over 14,000 tires.

With your help we have cleaned out and disposed of 500,000 pounds of trash. That’s the equivalent of 250 ’79 Volkswagen Beetles! Or 40 African elephants!