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2021 Pearl River Clean Sweep RESULTS

​TOTAL VOLUNTEERS: 381, TOTAL TRASH:  9,179 POUNDS

Headwaters of the Pearl
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Site Leaders: Mitzi Reed (Choctaw Wildlife and Parks) and Jim McAdory (Winston County 4-H Kayak Club)
VOLUNTEERS 7: TRASH TOTAL: 50 POUNDS

Old Hwy 13 Bridge 
Site Leaders: Amanda and Ben Mullen, Paul Wesley Hughes
Leake County Water Park 
Site Leaders: Keep the Rez Beautiful, David Dawley and Kellon Ketchum (BSA Troop 229)

VOLUNTEERS: 20, TRASH TOTAL: 450 POUNDS  

Ratliff Ferry (Flag Island/Eddie's Island/Survivor Island/Malibu/Beach Bluff/Coal Bluff Sandbar)
Site Leader:  Brent Bailey
Pearl River Wildlife Management Area
Site Leaders: Tonyah and Bill Stanley
VOLUNTEERS:  34, TRASH TOTAL:  725 POUNDS including 4 tires, a potty chair, broken lawn chairs, rusted out grills, a bicycle, old floats, a refrigerator door, a speed bump and old coolers

Ross Barnett Reservoir, Northbay Subdivision
Site Leader: Will Selman
VOLUNTEERS: 4, TRASH TOTAL: 50 POUNDS

Pelahatchie Creek
Site Leader: Camille Richards
VOLUNTEERS: 22, TRASH TOTAL: 425 POUNDS

Old Trace Park, Ross Barnett Reservoir
Site Leader: Jan Richardson, Keep Ridgeland Beautiful
**Trail Life Troop, MS-1031 (Jason Mann)
​**Troop 300

VOLUNTEERS: 31, TRASH TOTAL: 550 POUNDS 

*OCT 2-Lakeshore Park, Ross Barnett Reservoir   
Site Leader:  Gennifer Hankins, American Heritage Girls
Girl Scout Troop 2719, Cub Pack 576

VOLUNTEERS:  19, TRASH TOTAL: 650 POUNDS

Ross Barnett Reservoir Spillway Dam
Site Leaders:  Todd Macko, Ross Barnett Reservoir Spillway Fishing Group
Morton High School

VOLUNTEERS: 46, TRASH TOTAL: 2,425 POUNDS

OCT 2-Fannye Cook Natural Area
Site Leader: David Felder,  Wildlife Mississippi
Hinds Community College-Rankin campus, PTK, Honors
VOLUNTEERS:  20, TOTAL TRASH:  625 POUNDS

LeFleurs Bluff State Park
Site Leader: Bryan Keller (Den Leader, Pack 305)

​**STR Pack 30 Cub Scouts (Jessica Sullivan), BSA Troop 1 (Mike Scott), BSA Troop 8 (Bill Spence)
VOLUNTEERS: 19, TOTAL TRASH: 125 POUNDS

Belhaven Beach
Site Leaders: Andy Hilton and Claire Graves
St. Andrews Episcopal School, Millsaps College
VOLUNTEERS: 11, TRASH TOTAL:  400 POUNDS 

Crystal Lake
Site Leaders: Chris Lockhart (Capital City Kayaks)
Mindy Stevens (Hinds Community College, Raymond Campus, Honors College and PTK)
VOLUNTEERS: 30, TRASH TOTAL: 300 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 (Boy Scout Troop 88, Clinton, MS), Paul Speyerer, Whit McKinley
​John Wilson (Trail Life MS 1031)
VOLUNTEERS:  5, TOTAL TRASH: 275 POUNDS

Atwood Water Park and Wanilla Water Park 
Site Leaders:  Wilson Farnham, Glenn Dykes and Mike Tullis
VOLUNTEERS: 3, TRASH TOTAL: 50 POUNDS

Columbia Water Park
Site Leader:  Shelly Blackard 
VOLUNTEERS: 12, TRASH TOTAL:  50 POUNDS

Bogue Chitto Water Park (Bogue Chitto River)
Site Leader: Barry Chance and Nathan Wells
**BSA Troop 270 (Hammond, LA)
**BSA Troop 124 (Nathan Wells, Brookhaven)

VOLUNTEERS: 24 , TOTAL TRASH: 100 POUNDS

*OCT 2-LA Upper Pearl River
Site Leader:  Representative Malinda White, Washington Parish Government

VOLUNTEERS: 12, TOTAL TRASH:  644 POUNDS

*OCT 2-Lower West Pearl, Pearl River, LA 
Site Leader: Jessica Gauley, Honey Island Kayaks
Support: Canoe and Trail Adventures, Keep Slidell Beautiful
VOLUNTEERS: 47,  TRASH TOTAL:  660 POUNDS of trash, 70 lbs of glass recycled and 8 tires

*OCT 2-Pearl River Turnaround
Site Leader:  Stacie Ponthier
​**BSA Troop 351 (Charles LaCavera)

VOLUNTEERS: 7, TOTAL TRASH: 350 POUNDS

*OCT 2-Port Bienville, Pearlington, MS
Site Leader:  Jessica Bryant, South Mississippi Kayak Fishing Club
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VOLUNTEERS: 8, TOTAL TRASH: 275 POUNDS

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