Blog: The Truckee River under assault – trash is just one insult as it flows through Reno and Sparks
The annual Truckee River Cleanup Day set for September 25, 2021 is a 17 year-old beautification tradition. Every year, the nonprofit organization Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful (KTMB) organizes hundreds of volunteers who, in a four-hour period, remove trash, erase graffiti, and stencil a warning on storm drains along a 20-mile stretch of the river, from Verdi to Lockwood. Last year, in one day, some 500 volunteers removed over 35 tons of trash and green waste from the Truckee River Watershed. … But trash is only one environmental threat to the Truckee.