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URL:https://www.carolinacanoeclub.org/events/annual-week-of-rivers-cleanup
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SUMMARY:Annual Week of Rivers Cleanup
DESCRIPTION:Join us during Week of Rivers 2026 for our annual river cleanup
  effort. In addition to leaving put-ins and take-outs a little cleaner dur
 ing the week\, we will have a concentrated cleanup event on Monday June 29
 . Partnering with Swain Clean and Mainspring Conservation Trust\, we will 
 do a shoreline cleanup below Ela Dam on the Oconaluftee River. (Address is
 :  310 Dam Rd\, Whittier\, NC 28789) This is just upstream of the conflue
 nce of the Oconaluftee and Tuckasegee Rivers. In the past we have been for
 tunate to have the river do most of the work for us and deliver trash down
  to Fontana Lake and the Old 288 Boat Launch Area. This year the lake is a
 bout 15 feet lower than normal due to an unusually dry spring and where th
 ere is normally still lake water\, there is whitewater. But fear not\, the
 re is trash aplenty just below Ela Dam\, where it gets deposited in eddies
  during high water events: lots of plastic\, foam and other floating debri
 s left behind when the water recedes.\n\nWe will need several open canoes 
 to help ferry trash\, equipment and people to and from the far shore. Long
  pants and good shoes recommended. Swain Clean will provide bags\, baskets
 \, grabbers\, gloves and other useful tools to assist with the pickup. We 
 will stop around noon and have lunch and get a brief presentation from Mai
 nspring Conservation Trust\, the new owner of Ela Dam\, discussing the pro
 ject to remove the dam altogether.\n\nPlease be there no later than 9:30 i
 n order to have an accurate headcount for lunch.\n\n&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:Cleanup
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