OUR NEXT LARGE SCALE COMMUNITY PROJECT WILL BE MAY 5, 2012!
MIDDLE TENNESSEANS DO AMAZING THINGS. FOR EXAMPLES, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE VOLUNTEERS AT THE NASHVILLE CLEAN WATER PROJECT:
an official National Public Lands Day event
* Our Fall 2011 event attracted 268 volunteers who amassed 1,435 volunteer hours and a work crew value of more than $30,000. Volunteers removed 81 tires and 1,250 trash bags totaling 104 cubic yards of waste and weighing an estimated 33,800 pounds. The project scrubbed 120 acres overall, providing focused attention on 5.1 acres of roadway and 6.5 miles of shoreline, addressing the unnatural impact of lake visitors and increasing storm water debris from surrounding communities.
All told, the Nashville Clean Water Project has contributed more than $400,000 in service value represented by tens of thousands of hours from volunteers throughout the Nashville area since 2008.
THIS IS THE LARGEST WATER CLEANUP IN NASHVILLE HISTORY! If you’ve participated in one of our previous projects, thank you!! Keep steering your friends, neighbors and employers here and join us for our next free event on Saturday, May 5, 2012. We have several volunteer times available from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. Just hit the “Register Now” link to choose your own time.
Soak in this website to learn about the challenge at Percy Priest, then sign up for our May 5 event here.Event-day check in at:
J. Percy Priest’s A.C.E. workshop compound
3701 Bell Road, Nashville, 37214
(100 yards from the corner of Stewarts Ferry and Bell roads)
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Each Nashville Clean Water Project event has been a tremendous success with more garbage reclaimed and more friendships made than we ever knew was possible when we began. Time and time again, you prove you’re a unique breed. Amidst record rains on the eve of Nashville’s historic floods, more than 100 service and eco-crazies came to our our May event before we eventually had to cancel. Thanks to the generosity and persistence of NCWP volunteers, we’ve donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in labor, organization and educational services in just under three years. Together, we are improving the water quality in and around Middle Tennessee by putting a permanent dent in the blight – together.
Please join us in keeping the campaign against trash at Percy Priest a public conversation.
100% volunteer based. If you’d like to contribute a tax-free donation of any size (even $10), please click here. Be sure to type “100% intended for Nashville Clean Water Project” in the “Dedication” blank so the Tennessee Environmental Council will pass your donation straight through to us. Thanks for your support; please tell others about our cause.
