The Sacramento Area Creeks Council has lead Creek Week Festivities for about 25 years. This includes about 80 clean up sites each year now and over 2000 volunteers. Creek Week is a week long set of activities centered around raising awareness about our local urban creeks. After nature walks for the first 6 days including a "Splash Off" event to get it started with honoring a local high school for their environmental efforts, day 7 is the "Clean Up and Celebration Day". Volunteers meet early in the morning on a Saturday at their favorite clean up site and help pick up litter from creeks in the Sacramento area. Exhibitors set up displays and activities at Carmichael Park in Carmichael, CA and receive visitors from about 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Volunteers receive a free tee shirt and lunch, plus other freebies from the various agencies and organizations who staff exhibits. This has been a very well run operation for years and they do a great service for the Sacramento area!
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