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6th Annual Connoquenessing Creek Cleanup

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ORGANIZATION: Allegheny Aquatic Alliance

  • A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
  • 3 people are interested

Please help us restore this important waterway back to its beautiful, natural state by removing the physical garbage that consumes it. So far we have removed over 275,000 pounds of garbage, including over 2,600 tires from just 37 miles of the 50 mile waterway! This year we are focusing on a 15-mile stretch, starting in Harmony Junction and ending in Ellwood City. This is the first year the cleanup is in Butler, Beaver, and Lawrence Counties! Join us in doing a good thing for the environment and community while feeling good and meeting new friends!

Lunch, snacks, beverages, work gloves, & T-shirt provided

Cleanup Needs: Volunteers, Rope, Chains, 10 tarps, 10 pry bars, 2 chainsaws, 5 sledgehammers, 10 old metal ladders, 2-3 washing stations, 10 tin-cutters, hip waders, use of 2 pressure washers, use of 3 brush cutters/weed eaters, use of 15+ pickup/dump trucks with/without winches, use of 20 canoes, use of 20 aluminum/metal boats, 10+ floatation devices/life jackets, use of skid loader/Bobcat, use of trailers, portable winches, etc.

Register by contacting Christina Handley at alleghenyaquaticalliance@hotmail.com, (724) 371-0416, Or Just show up!

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About Allegheny Aquatic Alliance

Location:

111 Twin Creek Lane, Freedom, PA 15042, US

Mission Statement

Our mission is to restore the watersheds of Western Pennsylvania to their natural state by removing and combatting pollution, reinstating the organic environment, and educating citizens of the threats to our waterways in order to empower and encourage public action for watershed preservation.

Description

A local nonprofit organization devoted to water conservation and protection. Our vision is to see our local waterways returned to their beautiful natural healthy states. We want to minimize the negative human impact on our water

CAUSE AREAS

Community
Environment
Sports & Recreation
Community, Environment, Sports & Recreation

WHEN

Sat Aug 19, 2017
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM

WHERE

1718 PA-588Fombell, PA 16123

(40.79457,-80.17069)
 

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REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 8

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