Even on a chilly Saturday morning, over 190 volunteers teamed up at the MDC Public Boat Access in Hartsburg to help clean-up 9 miles of the Missouri River.  Over 115 bags of trash were collected and sorted through, resulting in 39 bags of recyclables, along with tons of scrap metal, appliances, and other materials including a small john boat! This was our third Hartsburg clean-up, and we really had to search hard to find the trash here. A huge shout out to the FEMA Americorps group for staying all afternoon and sorting through all the trash for recyclables.  Big thanks to Advanced Disposal and Jim's Tire Salvage for handling part of our waste stream.  And thanks to Terry Durham at Eridu Farms for letting our crew camp for the weekend at his beautiful elderberry farm!

Even on a chilly Saturday morning after a good soaking rain the evening before, over 280 volunteers teamed up at La Benite Park in Sugar Creek, MO to help clean-up 10 miles of the Missouri River.  Over 174 bags of trash were collected, along with tons of scrap metal, appliances, and other materials including a Jet Ski! A huge thanks to our agency partners who provided boats at the clean-up to help shuttle volunteers: we were joined by the Mo. Dept. of Conservation and Burns & McDonnell, in addition to our 5. 

248 volunteers showed up on a super hot day and promptly helped remove nearly 3 tons of junk from the banks of the river despite the forecast.  18 of those volunteers were from the Mutual of Omaha and Gallup, who came out a few days early to work an associates clean-up with us. With help of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers boats, we got everyone out on the river in about an hour and a half.  Supplied with trash bags, shovels, plenty of water and their gloved hands, we cleaned up about 11 miles of the river.

123 volunteers showed up and they removed 3.9 tons of junk from the banks of the river. 30 of those volunteers were from the Stienmetz 4-H organization in Glasgow, who also cleans up Highway 5. Other volunteers came from as far away as Kansas City, Chillicothe and Arnold. Glasgow residents love their river, and it shows. There is just not the normal amount of recreational and party trash as we find in most places. Stump Island Park is almost pristine. People take care of the river.

Washington, Mo. is one of the most river-centric towns on the Lower Missouri River. The beautiful park overlooking the river is the ideal place to hold, not just a community river clean-up, but also a local river festival highlighting the town's connection to the river. 70 volunteers helped cleanup the Riverfront Trail, the park, along Tiemann Rd and at Dundee removing a whopping 2.7 tons of trash!  We estimate over a thousand people attended the River Festival, enjoying the music, art and great informative booths by a bunch of local and regional organizations.

It was a blast to be back in St. Charles as part of Mission: Clean Stream, a county-wide clean-up event organized by Greenway Network. Greenway Network is a stream advocacy and restoration group that is celebrating their 20th Anniversary this year! We had 150 superb volunteers on hand to clean-up six miles of the Missouri River in St. Charles. It was a perfect spring day, a bit blustery but warm and sunny.

The Eighth Annual Big Muddy KC River Cleanup at Kaw Point Park this year was a huge success, and the weather could not have been more beautiful. This was the inaugural collaborative project between Missouri River Relief (MRR) and Healthy Rivers Partnership (HRP), a newly formed river-stewardship, not-for-profit organization in Kansas City. 303 volunteers teamed up at Kaw Point Park to help cleanup the Missouri River.

Despite a chilling drop in temperatures and sunshine, 125 brave volunteers came out to give back to the river. This was Missouri River Relief's 3rd cleanup in the St. Joe area.  Together with our community clean-up partners and volunteers, we were able to remove 6.9 tons of trash from the banks of the river!

Together with our community cleanup partners and volunteers like you, we were able to remove 5.2 tons of trash from the banks of the river! Over 200 volunteers showed up in full force on a beautiful fall Equinox to help clean up the banks of the Missouri River at NP Dodge Park. 

This was our first time cleaning up the river near Brunswick, and we had no idea what to expect. But as planning proceeded, it became obvious that people in Brunswick love their river and they love helping out with community projects. This ended up being a really special event. 120 volunteers helped clean up the river - which is outstanding for a first cleanup in a community this size.