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2025 Pearl River Clean Sweep RESULTS

​TOTAL VOLUNTEERS: 406, TOTAL TRASH:  10,807 POUNDS

Headwaters of the Pearl
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Site Leader: Mitzi Reed
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VOLUNTEERS : 8 TRASH TOTAL:  50 POUNDS

Old Hwy 13 Bridge to Leake County Water Park
Site Leaders: Amanda and Ben Mullen (Pearl River Kayaks)
Leake County Water Park 
Site Leaders: Daxton Fairchild (Leake Central High School FFA), Tamara Allen (Leake County 4-H Kayak Club)
Low Head Dam
Site Leaders: Amanda and Ben Mullen
Coal Bluff
Site Leader: Amanda and Ben Mullen
VOLUNTEERS : 32 TRASH TOTAL: 700 POUNDS

Ratliff Ferry (Flag Island/Eddie's Island/Survivor Island/Malibu/Beach Bluff/Coal Bluff Sandbar)
Site Leader:  Brent Bailey
EDP Renewables, Pearl River Solar, Ratliff Ferry Trading Post

VOLUNTEERS : 39 TRASH TOTAL: 1,000 POUNDS

Pelahatchie Creek
Site Leader: Kelly McGinnis
**Mississippi Paddling Mafia, Capital City Beverage, Pearl River Valley Water Supply District, Rankin County Rotary Club, Capital City Beverage, MS Master Naturalist
VOLUNTEERS : 20 TRASH TOTAL: 400 POUNDS

Old Trace Park, Ross Barnett Reservoir
Site Leader: Jan Richardson, Keep Ridgeland Beautiful
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VOLUNTEERS : 33 TRASH TOTAL: 75 POUNDS (plus 1 pound recycled water bottles)

Pelahatchie Shore Park, Ross Barnett Reservoir   
Site Leader:  Jennifer Kimbrough, American Heritage Girls
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VOLUNTEERS : 15 TRASH TOTAL:  200 POUNDS

Spillway Dam and Rankin Landing
Site Leader: Jeannine May, Keep the Rez Beautiful 
**Madison County Lions Club, Metro Leos
VOLUNTEERS :  40 TRASH TOTAL:  750 POUNDS 

LeFleurs Bluff State Park
Site Leader: Bryan Keller 
**BSA Troop 2719 (Candace Riley), BSA Troop 30  (Jeff Paczak and Jessica Sullivan)
VOLUNTEERS : 20 TRASH TOTAL: 175 POUNDS

Belhaven Beach and Jackson Waterworks 
Site Leaders: Claire Graves and Alex Melnick
**Mississippi College (Price Chadwick), City of Jackson, Millsaps College 1C1C (Alex Melnick), Jacobs Engineering
VOLUNTEERS : 20 TRASH TOTAL: 1,440 POUNDS

Crystal Lake
Site Leader: Chris Lockhart (Capital City Kayak Adventures)
**Hinds Community College, Boy Scout Troop 229
VOLUNTEERS : 15 TRASH TOTAL: 300 POUNDS

Strong River: D'Lo Water Park
Site Leader:  Patricia Smith, D'Lo Water Park
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**BSA Troop 88, Clinton, MS
VOLUNTEERS : 7 TRASH TOTAL: 300 POUNDS

Gatesville Bridge to Hopewell Bridge
Site Leaders: George Malvaney, Wesley Byrd, and Justin Plant (E3 Environmental)
VOLUNTEERS : 6 TRASH TOTAL: 600 POUNDS

Red Bluff
Site Leader: Shawn Harris (Piney Woods Conservation Group) 

**MS Hiking Group, MS Roguesters, Underdogs MS, Blended by Bridget, CGLee Studio, BSA Troop 93, Seven Rivers Canoe Club, USM Golden Eagles Conservation Society, Southern Miss Geology, Golden Eagle Fitness, Keep Columbia and Marion County Beautiful, Keep MS Beautiful 
​VOLUNTEERS : 70 TRASH TOTAL: 607 POUNDS (300 pounds of recyclables)

Atwood Water Park
Site Leader: Ford Wall (Atlas-SSI)
**Atlas-SSI, Georgia Pacific Monticello

VOLUNTEERS : 35 TRASH TOTAL: 1,250 POUNDS

Lower West Pearl, Pearl River, LA 
Site Leader: Jessica Gauley, Honey Island Kayaks
**Town of Pearl River, Honey Island Group of Sierra Club, Pearl River Home and Auto, Pearl River & Honey Island Swamp Museum & Research Center, St. Tammany Residential Waste LLC
VOLUNTEERS : 42 TRASH TOTAL: 2,960 POUNDS

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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Our Watershed
    • Our Team
    • Our Programs
    • Press
    • Blog
    • Resources
  • Our River
    • Water Testing Results
    • Watershed Issues
    • Watershed Research
    • Water Trail
    • Ross Barnett Reservoir/PRVWSD
    • Pearl River Boatway Maps, 1974
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Clean our Watershed
    • Test our Water
  • "One Lake"
    • Flood Risk Management
  • REPORT POLLUTION