Begun in the mid-1970s as the Jones Falls Watershed Cleanup and led by Irvine since 1977, Project Clean Stream is an annual regional stream clean up engaging more than a thousand Marylanders in cleaning up their watersheds and their communities. In 2004 Irvine turned the helm of the event over to the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, although we remain an active partner in both the planning and implementation of the event.
This is how the event works:
Irvine and other partner organizations work with local community organizations and leaders to determine clean-up locations and recruit Site Captains to help lead the clean up effort. Site Captains lead local stream clean ups throughout the region. Site Captains pick up the clean up supplies (provided) at a Site Captain meeting (one is held here at Irvine about 2 weeks prior to the event), manage their site's volunteers for the day, and send the clean up's results (# of volunteers, pounds of trash cleaned, etc.) to the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.
The next Project Clean Stream will be held on Saturday, April 5, 2008 from 9 am - noon.
For more information on Irvine’s role in Project Clean Stream contact Julie Shumway, Communications and Events Coordinator, at 410-484-2413 ext. 25.
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