San Carlos Lake Trash Pick-up

[CouesWhitetail]

The tribe is having a clean-up day at San Carlos lake tomorrow.

 

If anyone has the time, come on out and help clean-up! They are expecting about 100 people and are using boats to pick up trash that has accumulated from high water by the dam and also to ferry people to different areas on land where trash has accumulated. There is a free BBQ lunch afterward. No permits required, so come on down to Soda Canyon Boat ramp around 9 am if you can.

 

Amanda

 

Here is the press release from the tribe:

 

"CLEAN UP DAY"

 

San Carlos Recreation & Wildlife Department

will be participating in a clean up day at the San Carlos Reservoir.

 

 

These past storms have brought a lot of water to the San Carlos Reservoir

along with a lot of trash. Most of this trash and debris is channeled in

from the Gila River, San Carlos River and other small tributaries that run

into San Carlos Reservoir. This affects the overall appearance of the

reservoir, tourism, water quality, and wildlife.

 

 

The San Carlos Recreation & Wildlife Department will be joining forces with

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Bureau of Reclamation, United States Fish and

Wildlife Service, San Carlos Environmental Protection Agency and along with

anyone else who is interested in volunteering for the day. Boats will be

used by these agencies and volunteer will ride in the boats and pick up

trash with dip net.

 

We will meet on Thursday, March 24, 2005 at 9:00 am at

the Soda Canyon Boat Dock, which is just south of the San Carlos Lake Store

on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. We will distribute gloves, trash bags

and dip nets to volunteers and a free barbeque lunch will be provided for

those that volunteer.

 

If you have a boat and would like to be a driver and

can take volunteers around the shore line please join us. If there are not

enough boats for the day we will also walk along the shoreline and collect

trash. Everyone is welcome! Please join us in this conservation effort.

 

 

If you have questions or need additional information please call Stefanie

White at The San Carlos Recreation & Wildlife Department (928) 475-4758.