ICAR Hosts Cleanup at Point of View

This month several ICAR staff and students participated in the Alice Ferguson Foundation's 20th Annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup. The ICAR volunteers picked up litter along the shoreline of Thompson Creek and Belmont Bay at Point of View and removed over 300 pounds of trash from the waterway. In total, the event saw over 5,000 volunteers working along the Potomac River watershed, collectively removing over 131 tons of trash.

The Alice Ferguson Foundation (www.fergusonfoundation.org) founded and has coordinated the Potomac River Watershed Cleanups for the past 20 years to address the Potomac River's significant trash problem. Their goal is to celebrate a Trash Free Watershed by 2013. They are spearheading the Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative, engaging elected officials and stakeholders throughout the region to work collaboratively toward this goal. For more information, please visit www.trashfreepotomac.org.