Community Restoration & Resiliency
Mitigating marine debris following natural disasters…
Keep America Beautiful affiliates have access to grant funding for hosting cleanups, implementing beautification projects, and replacing infrastructure following natural disasters.
In the Tennessee River watershed, the frequent disasters have lately been flooding and tornadoes. With such natural events, trash, household items, park/road infrastructure, lawn furniture, and large components of docks wind up getting deposited far inland by higher waters.
Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful is ready and willing to apply for such funding from Keep America Beautiful on behalf of communities within the Tennessee River watershed.
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Thanks to a $6,000 Community Restoration & Resiliency grant from Keep America Beautiful, Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful has launched the ‘Community Restoration River Cleanup Series’ to mitigate marine debris following early 2020 flooding within the Tennessee River watershed.
In order to keep up with KTNRB’s COVID-19 Policy to ensure volunteer safety, this will be a series of mini-cleanups.
Schedule
Thursday, August 6 @ 9 a.m. | Fort Loudoun Lake (Knoxville, TN) | Register
Friday, August 7 @ 5:30 p.m. | Douglas Lake (Dandridge, TN) | FULL
Saturday, August 8 @ 9 a.m. | Watts Bar Lake (Kingston, TN) | Register
Tuesday, August 11 @ 9:30 a.m. | Cherokee Lake (Bean Station, TN) | Register
Friday, August 14 @ 9:30 a.m. | Nickajack Lake (Chattanooga, TN) | FULL
Saturday, August 29 @ 9 a.m. | Chickamauga Lake (Chattanooga, TN)| Register
Saturday, Sept. 19 @ 10 a.m. | Norris Lake (Norris, TN) | Register
*More cleanups will be added as time progresses. To request a cleanup, e-mail Kathleen@KeepTNRiverBeautiful.org.
outfitting the fleet - Photo gallery coming soon!
The $6,000 grant from Keep America Beautiful provided in Lowes gift cards is helping to outfit Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful’s 25-foot aluminum work boat and truck. Here are just a few of the ways that the gift card will trick out the KTNRB fleet and make our river cleanup work much more efficient:
Ramps to allow heavy, large, heavy tires to be rolled up onto the boat from the shore
Heavy-weight chains for towing items that can’t be immediately pulled from the water
All-terrain, collapsible wagons that help to haul litter to the boat when floods push debris far inland (litter can be deposited as far as 50 yards inland)
Kayaks for retrieving marine debris in shallow waters
Loppers and hedge trimmers to cut through brush that inevitably grows over litter piles
Netting to hold litter in the boat for hauling when a dumpster is not available on site
Shelving/hooks to store tools in the truck bed camper shell
past community restoration projects
In March 2019, Keep America Beautiful President and CEO Helen Lowman presented a $10,000 Community Restoration grant check to KTNRB to cleanup following February 2019 floods spanning the entire Tennessee River and a March 2019 tornado on Pickwick Lake in Mississippi. KTNRB hosted its first Grand Slam Cleanup series as part of the grant project. Click HERE to learn more.