What is Creek Cleanup?

Creek Cleanup was first organized in 1984 in response to a request from Mayor Tony Knowles for a group of citizens to organize a way for the community to help our creeks after learning, to our surprise, that our creeks were not healthy.

This event spawned the Anchorage Waterways Council as an official non-profit organization with a mission to protect, restore and enhance the creeks of Anchorage.

We continue to organize this event each year through generous donations from individuals, local government, and the business community. Each year up to 1,000 volunteers throughout the community put on boots, grab bags, and hit the creeks to lift the veil of trash that slowly descends upon the creeks each year. You pick up as much as 13 tons of trash each year from the creeks and help the fish and other critters that live in our waters thrive.