80% of litter found in America’s waterways originated on land.

This alarming fact has inspired Keep Knoxville Beautiful to use the momentum of the Great American Cleanup to help the Water Quality Forum and CAC AmeriCorps with their annual event to remove the trash that clogs and pollutes our local creeks!

Known as Clean, Protect and Restore or simply CPR, this event has involved hundreds of volunteers, young and old, and all passionate about keeping our creeks and communities clean.  In the last decade and a half, CPR has removed over 332 tons of trash from our waterways!

This year, we are hoping to encourage hundreds of volunteers to take part in this awesome annual project, so please join us to help clean up the following sites located throughout Knoxville and in Knox County:

• First Creek corridor at the Northgate Shopping Center. Register on the side entrance of the shopping center next to K-Mart and across from Buddy’s Barbeque.
• Third Creek along its greenway trail. Register near the Tyson Park tennis courts located next to the Concord AvenuePark entrance.
• Halls Crossroads community and Beaver Creek flowing through it. Register in the parking lot of the Hall Crossroads Women’s League Clothes Closet parking lot at the corner of Highway 33 and Cunningham Rd.
• First Creek corridor along its greenway trail below the Broadway Shopping Center on Luttrell Street. (Turn right off of Broadway onto Cecil Avenue; take first right onto Luttrell Street).
• Goose Creek throughout Mary Vestal Park. Register at the Park located on Maryville Pike under the Park’s pavilion.
• Lonsdale Community –Texas St. / Minnesota St.  Area, Sammy Hill School area. Register at the picnic table in the Sammy Hill Park facing the Sammy Hill School.

We will have all the necessary equipment that you need to stay safe; just dress to get dirty and bring yourself!   The first 50 volunteers at each site will get a free t-shirt!

Participating in CPR or any Great American Cleanup event will allow volunteers to become eligible for the Disney Give a Day Get a Day Program to receive a free Disney Parks Pass upon completion of at least four hours of service. Find CPR HERE to sign up to volunteer for your free pass!

In the event of inclement weather, CPR will be held the following Saturday on March 27th, 2010.  We will announce its postponement by 8 am on March 20th on this Web page in the event of severe weather conditions.  Please contact Gwen at (865) 215-5899 or e-mail CPRKnoxville@gmail.com if you have any questions regarding CPR and how you may volunteer.