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2022 Pearl River Clean Sweep RESULTS

​TOTAL VOLUNTEERS: 445, TOTAL TRASH: 12,614  POUNDS

Headwaters of the Pearl
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Site Leaders: Mitzi Reed (Choctaw Wildlife and Parks) 
VOLUNTEERS 3: TRASH TOTAL: 70 POUNDS

Old Hwy 13 Bridge 
Site Leaders: Amanda and Ben Mullen, Terry Thomas
Leake County Water Park 
Site Leader: Christopher Ray (BSA Troop 229)
Coal Bluff
Site Leader: Christy Hasson (BSA Troop 85)

VOLUNTEERS: 33, TRASH TOTAL: 840 POUNDS  

Ratliff Ferry (Flag Island/Eddie's Island/Survivor Island/Malibu/Beach Bluff/Coal Bluff Sandbar)
Site Leader:  Brent Bailey
VOLUNTEERS:  41, TRASH TOTAL:  1,000 POUNDS

Ross Barnett Reservoir, Northbay Subdivision and Mill Creek
Site Leader: Will Selman and Bob May
VOLUNTEERS: 7, TRASH TOTAL:  150 POUNDS

Pelahatchie Creek
Site Leader: Hollie Marjanovic and Kelly McGinnis
VOLUNTEERS: 20, TRASH TOTAL: 300 POUNDS

Old Trace Park, Ross Barnett Reservoir
Site Leader: Jan Richardson, Keep Ridgeland Beautiful
**Trail Life Troop, MS-1031 (Jason Mann), Troop 300
Pearl Middle School Beta Club, Graver 

VOLUNTEERS: 30, TRASH TOTAL: 300 POUNDS 

Pelahatchie Shore Park, Ross Barnett Reservoir   
Site Leader:  Jennifer Kimbrough, American Heritage Girls
VOLUNTEERS: 23, TRASH TOTAL:  300 POUNDS

Ross Barnett Reservoir Spillway Dam
Site Leaders:  Todd Macko, Ross Barnett Reservoir Spillway Fishing Group
VOLUNTEERS: 16, TRASH TOTAL: 300 POUNDS

Fannye Cook Natural Area
Site Leader: David Felder,  Wildlife Mississippi
**MS Master Naturalists, The Village School Ms
VOLUNTEERS: 17, TOTAL TRASH:  875 POUNDS

LeFleurs Bluff State Park
Site Leader: Bryan Keller (Den Leader, Pack 305)
**BSA Troop 300 (Stephen Heard)

VOLUNTEERS: 21, TOTAL TRASH: 250 POUNDS

Belhaven Beach and Jackson Waterworks 
Site Leaders: Andy Hilton and Claire Graves
**BSA Troop 1 (Mike Scott and Angel Bacon), Garden Club of Jackson 
VOLUNTEERS: 48, TRASH TOTAL:  2,800 POUNDS 

Crystal Lake
Site Leaders: Chris Lockhart (Capital City Kayaks)
Mindy Stevens (Hinds Community College, Raymond Campus, Honors College and PTK)
Joy Reid (Hinds Community College, Rankin Campus)
VOLUNTEERS: 39, TRASH TOTAL:  1,670 POUNDS

Strong River: D'Lo Water Park, Georgetown Bridge
Merit Water Park (Chapel Bridge to Hwy 28)

Site Leader:  Patricia Smith, D'Lo Water Park
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Ben Collins (BSA Troop 88, Clinton, MS)
VOLUNTEERS:  29, TOTAL TRASH: 400 POUNDS

Gatesville to Hopewell Bridge
Site Leaders: E3 Environmental

Atwood Water Park and Wanilla Water Park 
Site Leaders:  Wilson Farnham
VOLUNTEERS: 1, TRASH TOTAL: 20 POUNDS

Columbia Water Park
Site Leader:  Shelly Blackard 
VOLUNTEERS: 7, TRASH TOTAL:  30 POUNDS

Bogue Chitto Water Park (Bogue Chitto River)
Site Leaders: Barry Chance and Nathan Wells
**BSA Troop 270 (Barry Chance, Hammond, LA)
**BSA Troop 124B and 124G (Nathan Wells, McComb, MS)

VOLUNTEERS:  32, TOTAL TRASH:  500 POUNDS

*OCT 1-LA Upper Pearl River
Site Leader:  Representative Malinda White

VOLUNTEERS: , TOTAL TRASH:  POUNDS

*OCT 1-Lower West Pearl, Pearl River, LA 
Site Leader: Jessica Gauley, Honey Island Kayaks
Support: Canoe and Trail Adventures, Keep Slidell Beautiful, St. Tammany Residential Waste LLC, Pearl River & Honey Island Swamp Museum & Research Center, Town of Pearl River and LtGov Nungesser
VOLUNTEERS: 62,  TRASH TOTAL:  1609 POUNDS plus one refrigerator

Pearl River Turnaround
Site Leader:  Stacie Ponthier
​**BSA Troop 351 (Charles LaCavera)

VOLUNTEERS: 15, TOTAL TRASH: 1,200 POUNDS

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