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Tired of seeing trash litter your favorite river or lake swimming spot?

Join volunteers of the 31st Annual Beach Sweep/River Sweep Saturday, Sept. 21 to clean up local waterways.

This is South Carolina’s largest 1-day litter cleanup of beaches, rivers, lakes, marshes and swamps.

From 9 am until noon, groups spread out on foot or in boats from the various cleanup sites.

The SC Sea Grant Consortium partners with the SC Department of Natural Resources to organize the statewide event, which is held in conjunction with the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup.

Volunteers should contact Site Captains to sign up.

To participate in inland counties, visit http://www.dnr.sc.gov/bsrs/sites.htmlor contact Bill Marshall at

(803) 734-9096 or marshallb@dnr.sc.gov .

To participate in coastal counties, visit https://www.scseagrant.org/bsrs-sites or contact Susan Ferris Hill at

(843) 953-2092 or susan.ferris.hill@scseagrant.org .