20th Annual Earth Day Charles River Cleanup April 27th

In Holliston, it will take place at Weston Pond and the Rail Trail bed, but the 20th Annual Earth Day Charles River Cleanup will span locations in 35 different Massachusetts towns on Saturday, April 27, 2019. Volunteers will band together to remove litter and beautify the Charles River in one of the largest one-day river-cleanups in the country. Volunteers will come from corporate, community and youth groups to help protect the Commonwealth’s important natural resource.
If you would like to volunteer, please register at crwa.org/cleanup.
“We already have groups for some of these areas and are assigning them now,” explains Charles River Watershed Association’s Nishaila Porter, who explains that the CRWA will be need to pick up collected trash from the pre-designated areas.
Following the cleanup which will take place from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. along the river, volunteers are invited to picnic lunches from 12-1 p.m. at three locations throughout the region. In Boston, at DCR’s Fiedler Field, next to the Hatch Memorial Shell, a speaking program will take place at 12:30 p.m.
Charles River Watershed Association works with a team of diverse local organizations to plan this event including: Charles River Conservancy, the Department Conservation and Recreation, the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, The Esplanade Association, State Senator Will Brownsberger’s office and The Waltham Land Trust.
Sponsors of the Annual Earth Day Charles River Cleanup include Newton Yatch Club, White Corporation and Roche Bros. Supermarkets.
Charles River Watershed Association’s mission is to use science, advocacy and the law to protect, preserve and enhance the Charles River and its watershed. One of our country’s first watershed organizations, CRWA formed in 1965 in response to public concern about the declining condition of the Charles River. Since its earliest days of advocacy, CRWA has figured prominently in major clean-up and watershed protection efforts that have dramatically improved the health of the Charles. Because of CRWA’s efforts in the last 50 years, the Charles is considered the cleanest urban river in the United States by the U.S. E.P.A.
View the Cleanup website for more information, www.charlesriver.org/charles-river-cleanup