Volunteers Make For Successful Renew Our Rivers Cleanup On Alabama’s Lake Martin

By John Thompson

Thanks again to everyone who played a role in the 2018 Lake Martin Resource Association’s Renew our Rivers Lake Martin cleanup, held Nov. 2-3.

More than 300 volunteers participated in this annual event and removed an estimated 20 tons of trash from our treasured lake. Volunteers filled trash bins at Wind Creek Park, Kowaliga boat ramp, Union boat ramp, Real Island Marina and the Alexander City boat ramp with trash removed from the Lake Martin shoreline and adjacent roadsides. Three large bins were filled at Wind Creek. More than 100 tires and a refrigerator were included in the removed trash.

A small, hard-working group of volunteers concentrated on the shoreline in the Elkahatchee Creek and Camp ASCCA area and filled as many as 1,000 large bags with trash that has accumulated over many years. The Dixie Sailing Club was present with its young sailors and cleaned a heavily trashed area near New Hope Church. Boats provided by volunteers, LMRA, Alabama Power Company and Lake Martin Dock Company loaded the heavy bags and large pieces of beaded Styrofoam and transported them to Wind Creek Park Marina and the Alexander City public ramp.

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