SONORA, Calif. - On Saturday, Sept. 17, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Central California Area Office is partnering with the Tuolumne County Land Trust, Tuolumne
Resource Conservation District, Master Gardeners, and New Melones Lake Marina to hold the 2016 Great Sierra River Cleanup (GSRC) in Tuolumne and Calaveras
counties. The cleanup will focus on sites around New Melones Lake in the Stanislaus River watershed as declining water levels expose trash and debris.
The public, organizations and local businesses are invited and encouraged to participate in the GSRC on September 17 from 9 a.m. to noon. To register,
please contact Park Ranger Mike McGraw at 209-536-9094 (TTY 800-877-8339) or mmcgraw@usbr.gov. On-site
registration and check-in will begin at 8 a.m. at the New Melones Lake Visitor Center, 6850 Studhorse Flat Road, Sonora.
Cleanup sites will be located in the Glory Hole and Tuttletown Recreation Areas, New Melones Lake Marina, and the Parrotts Ferry Area. Maps will be
provided for these locations upon check-in, and volunteers will need to provide their own transportation. Volunteers should dress for the summer heat;
bring snacks and water; wear a hat, sunscreen and sturdy shoes; and bring work gloves and trash grabbers, if possible. Participants requiring special
accommodations should contact Reclamation as far in advance as possible.
The GSRC is the premier volunteer event focused on removing trash and restoring the health of waterways throughout the Sierra Nevada Region. This annual
event is coordinated by the Sierra Nevada Conservancy and held in conjunction with California Coastal Cleanup Day. For information on the GSRC, please
visit http://www.sierranevada.ca.gov/our-work/rivercleanup.
This event supports the Department of the Interior’s Let's Move Outside! initiative, which was created to get kids and families to take advantage
of America’s great outdoors, which abound in every community, city and town. For information on Let’s Move Outside!, please visit http://www.letsmove.gov/lets-move-outside.
For information on New Melones Lake, please visit http://www.usbr.gov/mp/ccao/newmelones.
Source: Bureau of Reclamation
