What is Creek Cleanup?

Our next Creek Cleanup will be in May 2011! It’s a day where nearly 1,000 volunteers throughout Anchorage put on boots and gloves to clean the trash from local streams and waterways. This effort improves habitat for fish and other critters and helps humans thrive too!  
Each year, volunteers remove several tons of trash. The Anchorage Waterways Council needs folks, families and teams to pitch in and make a difference. Sign up for volunteering here.

The effort was organized in 1984 when Mayor Tony Knowles called for a group of citizens to organize around improving the health of creeks. The event  spawned the Anchorage Waterways Council—which still tirelessly protects, restores and enhances the creeks of Anchorage. Anchorage Waterways Council  organizes this event each year through generous financial and inkind donations from the Municipality, the business community, and individuals. 

 If you see large collections of trash and debris in or near a creek or wetland please call us at 27-CREEK.

Creek Cleanup Sponsors

Anchorage Waterways Council’s Creek Cleanup depends on the generous support of business and community sponsors to help the event occur. There are a variety of opportunities for both cash contributions and donations of goods and services.

All sponsors are featured with lots of great promotion and a chance to reach nearly 1,000 active community members who care about Anchorage’s environment.

If you or your company would like to be a Creek Cleanup sponsor please call AWC at (907)-27-CREEK or email  thom@anchoragecreeks.org.

                  To all our 2010 Creek Cleanup Sponsors--a big THANKS!

Prizes for 2010 Creek Cleaner Volunteers!

The Grand Prize of two roundtrip AKRR tickets from Anchorage to Denali was won by the Canadine family (Bayshore area)!

A $40 Cafe Amsterdam gift card was won by the Schick family. 

$25 Moose's Tooth gift cards were won by Danny Consenstein, Melissa Connor, Max Osgood, and Bob and Hunter Thompson.

Kaladi Coffee cards were won by Matthew Schmidt, Alyse Roberts, and Tanya Cullens.

REI gear was won by LeAndra Childs, Julie Freeman, Ben Skidmore, and Annalise Decker.