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For Immediate Release
May 12, 2010
Contact: Melissa Knepper
(717) 787-4651

Conococheague Creek Cleanup Event Scheduled for May 15 

HARRISBURG – Senator Richard Alloway II (R-33) is urging district residents to take part in a creek cleanup project on May 15 as part of the Great American Cleanup of Pennsylvania.

The cleanup project, planned in conjunction with the Conococheague Watershed Alliance (CWA), will take place in and along the Conococheague Creek, in Chambersburg, from Commerce Street to the Nitterhouse Soccer Park from 9 a.m. until noon. Registration for participants will begin at 8 a.m.

"This event will help improve our local environment and serve as a valuable teaching tool for young people to learn the value of volunteerism and environmental stewardship," Alloway said. "I am hopeful that district residents will choose to participate in this event on Saturday to do their part to protect the environment."

Alloway urged participants to bring work clothes, gloves, hip waders and other protective equipment to prevent injury. Participants with kayaks or canoes may float the stream picking up trash from the deeper waters that can't be reached by participants with hip waders.

Any individual or group who is interested in volunteering for the event can contact Melissa Knepper in Senator Alloway's office at mknepper@pasen.gov , (717) 787-4651, or CWA President Jennifer Bratthauar or any member of the organization at conococheaguewa@gmail.com.