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Location: Various locations along the American River
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Difficulty Level: 1 – 5
Event Name: American River Spring Clean-Up

The American River Parkway Foundation is organizing our annual spring river clean-up event. Please tell your friends and assemble your coworkers. Whatever site you choose to attend, you will be working with like-minded individuals with a common goal of cleaning the Parkway.
It will be helpful if you sign up through the parkway. If you don’t sign up, we’d still love to see you out there! Please choose a location and lend a hand.
There are 8 sites to choose from and a rogue boating crew (link below). Some locations are for all ages and some limited to volunteers over 18 that will focus on cleaning up abandoned encampments. Click on this link to sign up for one of these eight locations. https://arpf.org/events/springcleanup/
Discovery Park
Northgate (18+ only)
Cal Expo (18+ only)
Howe Avenue (18+ only)
Watt Avenue
River Bend Park
Upper Sunrise

Sunday, April 16, 2023
Location: Various locations along the American River
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Difficulty Level: 1 – 5
Event Name: American River Spring Clean-Up

The American River Parkway Foundation is organizing our annual spring river clean-up event. Please tell your friends and assemble your coworkers. Whatever site you choose to attend, you will be working with like-minded individuals with a common goal of cleaning the Parkway.
It will be helpful if you sign up through the parkway. If you don’t sign up, we’d still love to see you out there! Please choose a location and lend a hand.
There are 8 sites to choose from and a rogue boating crew (link below). Some locations are for all ages and some limited to volunteers over 18 that will focus on cleaning up abandoned encampments. Click on this link to sign up for one of these eight locations. https://arpf.org/events/springcleanup/
Discovery Park
Northgate (18+ only)
Cal Expo (18+ only)
Howe Avenue (18+ only)
Watt Avenue
River Bend Park
Upper Sunrise

Insects such as aphids, certain scales, mealybugs, and others can produce a sticky substance called honeydew that can create a big mess around gardens and landscapes.

Learn how to identify, prevent, and control these honeydew-producing insects and their damage to plants. This presentation will be given by Karey Windbiel-Rojas, UC IPM Associate Director for Urban & Community IPM/Area IPM Advisor.

Location: 2351 Northgate Blvd
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Difficulty Level: 1 – 2

The Gardenland Northgate Association is planning a neighborhood cleanup. We will be meeting on the south-west side behind the 99 cents store on 2351 Northgate Blvd. Sacramento CA 95833. We will be doing our best to clean the trail behind the 99 cents shopping center leading to Northview Drive. We have partnered with the City of Sacramento and appreciate if you, your families, and neighbors come help keep our neighborhood clean. We will be providing burritos, gloves, pickup sticks, etc.

Location: 3565 Auburn Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95821-2005

[Meeting Spot is Harry Renfree Baseball Field at the Corner of Auburn Blvd and Bridge Road]

In conjunction with the Great Sacramento citywide Earth Day Clean-Up, RCWA is partnering with Arcade Creek Adopt-A-Creek Project and Arcadis U.S. to clean Arcade Creek through Del Paso Regional Park.

Having completed the heavy cleaning of this beautiful one mile stretch of Arcade Creek last August, we’re gonna perform another post-rain “maintenance mode” cleanup to grab new trash washed downstream. This area is full of natural filters that have stopped a substantial amount of trash from being swept downstream and into the Delta and beyond. But that leaves a lot of cleanup work to rid this beautiful park of the resulting debris fields of trash.

This event will range in difficulty from moderate to difficult, with some pretty easy pickins’ around the flat grassy parkway.

RCWA will provide bags, but please bring along your sturdy footwear, grabbers, buckets and gloves – a limited number of loaner buckets and grabbers may be available.

Recommended (but not required): rain boots or waders – there is water in the creek, though it can be avoided if careful.

As with all events shared by RCWA, participation is performed solely at your own risk. Please place safety FIRST and do only what you feel comfortable doing. Moreover, participants will be required to sign a Release and Waiver form if they have not done so previously.

Overall, be safe, have fun and get some “Exercise with a Purpose” as Bill Templin always says!

Thank you!

River City Waterway Alliance
https://www.facebook.com/rivercitywaterwayalliance

Arcade Creek Adopt-A-Creek Project
https://www.facebook.com/ArcadeCreekAACP

Location: Various locations across Sacramento

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Difficulty Level: 1 – 5

Event Name: Sacramento Wide Earth Day Clean-Up

Join Sacramentans in celebration of Earth Day for a city-wide litter cleanup event!

Sign up here: cityofsacramento.org/earthday

Locations include:

– Robla Community Park

– San Juan Reservoir Park

– Riverfront Promenade

– Robert T. Matsui Waterfront Park

– Miller Regional Park

– William Chorley Park

– Granite Regional Park

– North Laguna Trail

– Del Paso Regional Park