Tuesday, September 17, 2019

River Closed This Weekend for Cleanup

The Pearl River Valley Water Supply District issued the following statement.

Barnett Reservoir officials have announced that the Spillway Recreation Area below the dam will be closed Sept. 21-22 to accommodate the 3rd annual Operation Clean Sweep on the Pearl River.

The Pearl River Valley Water Supply District, the state agency that oversees the 33,000-acre lake, said the gates on the access ramps on both sides of the spillway will be locked at 4:00 a.m. on Saturday Sept. 21 and only volunteers and staff working on the cleanup will be allowed to enter until further notice.

Officials said work is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. Saturday on the west side of the spillway and continue until it is complete. Cleaning on the east side, or Rankin County side, will follow and the east side parking lot will serve as the collection site for all trash gathered in the reservoir and nearby areas.

Organized by Pearl Riverkeeper Abby Braman of Madison, Operation Clean Sweep targets the entire Pearl River watershed, from the headwaters at Nanih Waiya above Philadelphia to the Pearl’s mouth on the Mississippi and Louisiana border at the Gulf of Mexico. It involves 490 miles of river flowing through 15 Mississippi counties and two Louisiana parishes. Using over 30 collection sites, the 2017 Sweep saw 1,015 volunteers pull 36,782 pounds of trash from the Pearl River.

For more information on or to volunteer for Operation Clean Sweep, visit https://www.pearlriverkeeper.com/2019-pearl-river-clean-sweep.



Posted by Kingfish at 2:00 PM

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is money well spent.

Our natural treasures are our greatest treasures in Mississippi. We dont have tall mountains or deep caves. We have our rivers so let's take care of them. Kayaking has really taken off in Mississippi too and there is nothing worse than seeing nasty smelly trash in a kayak.

September 17, 2019 at 2:23 PM
Anonymous said...

If PRVWSD personnel, from their observation tower, and elsewhere, would simply police the 50 people fishing in the rocks daily, we would not have worm boxes, chicken boxes and styrofoam all along the Pearl south of the spill-way. Yet, Sigman can't seem to get a grip on that.

September 17, 2019 at 3:08 PM
Anonymous said...

2:23 - it appears that this is a volunteer project

3:08 - I assume you will be volunteering to help clean up since you enjoy kayaking on the river

September 17, 2019 at 3:54 PM
Anonymous said...

I'm 3:08, and, no, I don't kayak. What about my post did you find objectionable? I merely pointed out one cause of the problem. When you have to clean up after pigs, your first mistake was in not policing the pigs to begin with. Try to grasp that.

September 17, 2019 at 4:32 PM
Anonymous said...

@3:54

I'm 2:23 and I will be there.

September 17, 2019 at 5:05 PM
Anonymous said...

i live at the rez in rankin county. everyday i walk 5 or 6 miles . during every walk i see no less than about 10-15 PRVWSD pickup trucks with 1 or 2 employees just riding around , going nowhere in particular . maybe they could go help with this lil cleanup

September 17, 2019 at 8:20 PM
Anonymous said...

Proud of you 2:23!!!

September 17, 2019 at 9:46 PM
Anonymous said...

Jackson storm drains go into the pearl. It will always be a cesspool, as jackson residents don’t care about litter and filth.

September 17, 2019 at 10:37 PM
Anonymous said...

What's the answer to the behavior of pigs. I don't know. I do know that over in the Mississippi River counties, they shoot feral hogs rather than clean up after them.

As long as we pick up in our kids' bedrooms twice a week, what are the odds they'll change their behavior?

September 18, 2019 at 2:56 AM

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