News Releases

09/23/2020 – Riversweep to Clean Up Waterways Set for October 3

09/28/2020 – Catawba Riversweep Preview and Packing Party

10/02/2020 – Catawba Riversweep – October 3

Media Contact Persons

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Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation
Brandon Jones, Catawba Riverkeeper – 704-679-9494 ext. 102, [email protected]
John Searby, Executive Director – 309-989-7476, [email protected]

Catawba-Wateree Water Management Group
Jimmy Bagley, CWWMG Chair, Deputy City Manager, City of Rock Hill – 803-329-5518, [email protected]

Recent Media Coverage

FOX 46 – Good Day Charlotte’s Brigida Mack talks with Brandon Jones about the upcoming Catawba Riversweep on October 3rd

Logos

Catawba Riverkeeper
Catawba Riversweep
Catawba-Wateree Water Management Group

Background

For decades, citizens around the Catawba River Basin have been cleaning up their river, lakes, creeks, and streams to make sure their waterways look beautiful, are safe for swimming and fishing, and are free of pollution.

The Catawba Riversweep is one day a year when citizens from all over the Catawba-Wateree River Basin come together to clean up on the same day. October 7, 2023 will be a day when thousands of neighbors come together at dozens of sites from Lake James to Lake Wateree and everywhere in between. It will be a day of hard work, fun, fellowship, and action!

For the past 18 years, in partnership with the Lake Wylie Marine Commission, the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation has been holding an annual Lake Wylie Riversweep. The dedicated volunteer leaders of this event have generously shared their knowledge with many other community groups across the basin who wanted to start their own Riversweeps!

Beginning in 2020, all of these local organizing groups are coming together to show their communities the impact that collaboration and cooperation can have on the health and cleanliness of our River. At dozens of sites across 26 counties in North and South Carolina, thousands of volunteers will take 3 hours out of their busy lives to make a positive impact on their community, their environment, and their drinking water.