On Friday, April 4, 2025, we kicked off our 23rd season of Project Clean Stream (PCS)! Thank you to all of our dedicated volunteers and partners who helped us kick off the season. Explore each kickoff event below!

 

Washington, DC

The Alliance’s DC team joined with volunteers from Ahold Delhaize USA and the local community to clean up the banks of Oxon Creek, a 1.5-mile creek that drains into the Potomac River. Together, our volunteers were able to remove 18 bags of trash.

Left: Volunteers gather glass and other small waste from the shoreline.
Right: Ahold Delhaize USA volunteers bring their collected trash to the dump site.

 

York, PA

There was a great range of folks of all ages at our Pennsylvania kickoff! Some had never been to this local park before, and others were very familiar with it, and so happy it was going to get some love. We collected an estimated 1,200 pounds of trash. There was less furniture than last year, but more debris of every other kind. The strangest item we found was a plush unicorn toy.

Children and adults clean up trash with grabbers

Volunteers of all ages were a huge help cleaning up the community park.

 

Annapolis, MD

This season, the Maryland team kicked off PCS in partnership with Anne Arundel Watershed Stewards. Together, we removed the invasive species, wineberry, from Quiet Waters Park. We had 14 volunteers join us for this kickoff event and removed 1,600 sq ft of wineberry from a long stretch of road by Holly Pavilion.

a person smiles while holding up a large plant root

Alliance Development Coordinator, Mason Hendrick, is excited to remove the invasive roots from the park.

Project Clean Stream is made possible with support from Perdue Corporate Giving by The Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation and the Wills Group Advancing Waterways and Watersheds initiative.

 

Interested in getting involved this season?

It’s not too late! You can find a list of cleanups happening around the watershed on the Chesapeake Network. You can also host your own cleanup by registering your cleanup site on the Chesapeake Network and becoming a site captain today! More information can be found in our site captain packet. Finally, be sure to keep us up to date about your community’s needs, and report a trashy area here.

See more photos from the spring 2025 kickoff