News Release
| Release Number: | 98-036 |
| Dated: | 5/14/1998 |
| Contact: | Heidi Y. Helwig, 503-808-4510 |
Portland, Ore. -- By volunteering three hours of your time, you can help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers enhance wildlife habitat and improve the safety of visitors to Elk Creek Project lands. How? By participating in the statewide Down by the Riverside Cleanup, Enhancement and Appreciation Day from 9 a.m. to noon on May 16.
To get to the project, turn onto Elk Creek Road off of Highway 62. Just past milepost 2, go through the gate on the right side of the road until you see the registration area.
The Elk Creek Project lands are open to visitors in the summer for day-use but need to be made safer for guests. Volunteers are needed to help the Corps remove litter and barbed wire from the project. Please wear work clothes, sturdy shoes, work gloves and a hat and bring your own drinking water and sunscreen. Wire cutters and/or vehicles that could be used to pull the wire are especially needed.
SOLV (Stop Oregon Litter and Vandalism) and the Oregon State Marine Board coordinate the Down by the Riverside statewide event. SOLV also works with government and corporate sponsors on a variety of other cleanup and beautification projects throughout Oregon.
For more information about the cleanup at Elk Creek, call Corps park ranger Tami Garrity at (541) 878-2255.