Join us on a river clean up this Saturday September 12th. Volunteers will be working from several locations along the Winooski River, North and Stevens Branch. Advance sign up via email at info@winooskiriver.org is greatly appreciated. But feel free to show up at Montpelier City Hall on the 12th. We will meet for bagels and coffee at 8:30 and disburse to clean up locations at 9:00.

Montpelier High School students will be cleaning up the river on Tuesday September 15th. During the week of September 14-18, art students will craft sculptures from debris pulled from the river during the cleanup. Stop by during the week to see what they come up with!

The clean up is part of the Friends Four Rivers Fund program. The Fund is so named because it is here that the Winooski River meets up with three of its major tributaries-the Stevens Branch, the North Branch and the Dog River. The Fund will allow us to expand our stewardship efforts and the services that we provide to the Barre-Montpelier area and engage more residents as river stewards.This work has and will include river clean ups, water quality monitoring, assessment of stormwater systems that empty into local waterways, and stormwater run-off mitigation projects. More details of the how the Fund will be used can be found on our website. For more about us, go to Winooskiriver.org Bring gloves and closed toe shoes that will get wet for sure..