Great Saw Mill River Clean-Up – A Great Success!

Groundwork Hudson Valley and The Saw Mill River Coalition would like to issue a great, big “Thank you” to everyone who helped make our first Annual Great Saw Mill River Clean-Up a huge success!

Over 250 volunteers at 11 sites along the Saw Mill River removed hundreds of bags of trash and piles of debris from in and along the river, making it a better place for the plants, animals, and insects that call it home; revitalizing a major urban and suburban greenway; and preventing all that trash from being flushed into the Hudson River and then to the Atlantic Ocean. The Clean-Up was a wonderful example of citizens taking action on a small, local level to achieve large positive effects that start in our own backyards, but reach much farther.

Great job, but we still need your help! Please take a few moments to do the following:

  • Send us pictures!! E-mail them, by responding to this e-mail, to emily@groundworkhv.org
  • For more event photos click here
  • Let us know if you need Community Service Hour Forms signed
  • If you didn’t fill out a survey form, PLEASE copy/paste the questions below in an e-mail with your answers. It is ok if they are approximate:
  1. First Name
  2. Last Name:
  3. Email:
  4. School/Organization:
  5. Are you interested in scheduling another clean-up with your group or “adopting a site” along the river?
  6. What site did you cleanup?
  7. Number of volunteers:
  8. Number of trash bags filled:
  9. Number of tires found:
  10. Most common type(s) of trash found:
  11. Most unique or remarkable thing found:
  12. Check if found:
    Styrofoam:           Plastic Bags:         Construction Materials:
    Household Appliances:
  13. Comments or suggestions for improving this cleanup campaign:

Data collection is an important part of the clean-up effort, so if you haven’t given us information about your findings, please do.

Thanks very much and we hope to see you again.

The Great Saw Mill River Clean-Up in Westchester County, which is coordinated by The Saw Mill River Coalition (SMRC)/Groundwork Hudson Valley and local cleanup leaders is projected to be a large and ongoing community improvement project. This initiative is made possible by the Westchester Community Foundation with additional support from the EPA Targeted Watershed Grant and the Department of Environmental Conservation Hudson River Estuary Program.

Groundwork Hudson Valley and The Saw Mill River Coalition would like to issue a great, big “Thank you” to everyone who helped make our first Annual Great Saw Mill River Clean-Up a huge success!Over 250 volunteers at 11 sites along the Saw Mill River removed hundreds of bags of trash and piles of debris from in and along the river, making it a better place for the plants, animals, and insects that call it home; revitalizing a major urban and suburban greenway; and preventing all that trash from being flushed into the Hudson River and then to the Atlantic Ocean. The Clean-Up was a wonderful example of citizens taking action on a small, local level to achieve large positive effects that start in our own back yards, but reach much farther.