Join us for the
28th Annual
Source to Sea Cleanup
in Fall 2024!

[details to come]

Get dirty for cleaner rivers!

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Thanks to all who participated in this year’s cleanup!

The 2023 Source to Sea Cleanup has now concluded. Thank you so much to the 130+ groups who participated! Your dedication to keeping our rivers clean is making a huge positive impact. You are welcome to see some of our early highlights and be on the lookout for the new Cleanup Chronicle which will provide many more stories, photos, and trash stats. We’ll be back with the 28th annual cleanup in 2024.

Welcome to the Source to Sea Cleanup, a powerful and effective community event spanning the length of our 410-mile watershed in NH, VT, MA, & CT. Each fall, thousands of volunteers of all ages and abilities come together to do their part and spend a few hours making the water cleaner, the river banks safer, and the wildlife happier.

How To Get Involved

Year-Round Cleanups

Although our annual event runs each fall, we encourage folks to consider cleaning up rivers, streams, parks, and city streats at other times of year, such as hosting an Earth Day Cleanup in spring, when foliage is still low and poison ivy at bay!

Cautions to spring cleanups: cold, high, and fast-moving water

ORGANIZE YOUR DIY CLEANUP

Fall Cleanups

Lead a Group

Group Leaders organize the details of their own group(s) throughout the watershed. Start planning your group here.

Join a Group

If you’re most excited about cleaning, but less interested in organizing, you can join us as a Group Volunteer:

  1. Sign up with a group you know or find a group accepting volunteers
  2. Clean up!
  3. Tally the trash you collect to help CRC keep track of what’s out there. We use this data to advocate for pollution solutions.

Go out on your own

You may register as a Solo Volunteer! This helps us know that you’re out there & where you’re planning to clean. After your Cleanup, please share your Trash Tally with us.

REGISTRATION TO OPEN SUMMER 2024

Other Ways to Support

2023 Accomplishments:

Thank you to all of our volunteers, group leaders, sponsors, and friends, for working together to tackle the trash challenge throughout the Connecticut River watershed. A sample of this year’s stats:

  • Over 1200 volunteers fanned out in all four river states. What a team effort!
  • 132 registered Cleanup groups (plus dozens of others who went out on their own)
  • 34.2 tons of trash diverted from rivers & streams
  • 9,241 beverage containers – comprised of plastic, glass, and aluminum cans
  • 13,781 pounds of scrap metal

See the full impact of our collective efforts in the 2023 Source to Sea Chronicle.

Sign up for our Source to Sea Cleanup eNews to get the details right to your inbox.

We look forward to seeing this fall at Cleanup 2024!

For more information about the Cleanup, contact Stacey Lennard, Cleanup Coordinator, at cleanup@ctriver.org or 413-772-2020 x211.

Thanks for helping to keep our rivers clean!

CRC’s Source to Sea Cleanup has teamed up with Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup and American Rivers National River Cleanup, for cleaner waterways around the U.S. and the world.