Milwaukee Riverkeeper hosts spring cleanup

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — What higher solution to reap the benefits of as we speak’s lovely climate than to provide again.

As we speak, on April 23, hundreds of individuals lined Milwaukee space riverbanks to choose up trash.

It was all a part of the annual Milwaukee Riverkeeper spring cleanup. Not solely did they decide up tons of trash alongside the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinic rivers, however they had been additionally cleansing up park areas in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha Counties.

“It is so vital proper now,” mentioned Jennifer Bolger Breceda, government director of Milwaukee Riverkeeper. “There’s a lot nuisance trash on the market, and litter, and air pollution, and all of it makes its approach by means of the waterways by means of wind and rain and our storm drains and you already know the Milwaukee river basin runs into Lake Michigan and that is our ingesting water supply and we have to defend it.”

Following all that cleanup, volunteers got a free t-shirt and a free celebratory beer on the publish occasion celebration. For extra info on what the Milwaukee Riverkeeper group does to guard our waterways, simply head to their web site by clicking right here.