Dedicated To Our Creeks & Community

We at the Creek Cleanup Project have taken a very aggressive approach to cleaning up our creeks, we realized early on that monthly cleanups would not be effective to get our creeks back to their natural state, so we go out almost every weekend year round.

We remove everything no matter how larger or labor intensive from a 300 gallon fuel tank to a plastic bag, we work on average 2 miles of creek at a time and we keep going  over that  section till it's clean, after that we move on to the next 2 miles.

To date we have covered 44 miles of the East Branch of the Conococheague Creek removing over 33,500lbs of trash, this number is continuously going up as we continue to push further down stream while back tracking to maintain some of the problem areas.

The ultimate goal for CCP is to organize  satellite groups around the county to maintain sections of creek we have cleaned, with these groups we can maintain problem areas around the county, this will stop the trash from high traffic areas from spreading miles downstream.

We will provide these groups with the boats and tools needed to do the job, at the end we will pickup the collected trash and dispose of it, large bulky items these groups may find will be marked and noted so a more specialized group can come through and remove them at a later date.

 In time we will grow CCP to the point that we can cover and maintain all the creeks in Franklin County, this will be done creek by creek to start, the first pass on a new section of creek is usually pretty brutal, we average over 1000lbs of trash per mile, once the first run is complete it will be much easier to maintain at that point.