Saranac River Clean-Up 2009

For 20 years Jim and Jennie Sauseville, through the Adirondack Paddlers Club, have been organizing volunteers to remove garbage from the Saranac River in and around the town of Saranac Lake. Some years have seen as many as thirty volunteers and some as few as five. Despite the turn out, the clean-up always happens with the support of local canoe and kayak outfitters, the Village of Saranac Lake and the River Corridor Commission.
In those twenty years many items have been pulled from the river: shopping carts, bottles, plastic bags, cell phones, tires, road cones, lawn chairs, car batteries, shoes, a wallet, a purse, dinner plates, eating utensils, clothing of all types, bicycles, worm cartons, road signs, 50 gallon drums, and hub caps; just to mention a few.
This Saturday at 1:00pm volunteers will meet at the Dorsey Street Parking lot to, once again, remove garbage from the shoreline as they make their way down river. All who are interested need only show-up with old clothes and be ready to work. Canoes to haul garbage, work gloves, garbage bags, and paddling equipment will be provided by local outfitters and Adirondack Paddlers Club.