7th Annual – A Cleaner Clear

Don’t kill each other. Take care of your environment. Treat others with kindness. Don’t get your news from Facebook. (The Covid Vaccine Leads to Infertility) It’s simple. And if you don’t buy into these simple rules, then you are probably not in many friend groups. Luckily, there are few of these humans on the earth, and like bad lettuce, they should be avoided. Which is why we should put more effort into the natural environment. Nature is beautiful, and we humans have a responsibility to keep her that way.

That’s why for the last 6 years, a growing group of nature lovers descend on one of America’s most most neglected urban waterways in a beautiful show of compassion by cleaning up the filthiest part of Clear Creek, Colorado. This little beauty of a stream begins it’s journey as snow melt and pure natural springs along the Continental Divide and tumbles through small mountain towns and then Interstate 70, then Coors brewery, and into the hustle and bustle of the Denver Metro before joining hands with the meandering South Platte, then somehow to the ocean.

Efforts by The Confluences and our rowdy rabble of trash-grabbing volunteers clean up 3 miles of greenway, highways, and underpasses so that the river runs clear, true to its name.

So please bring a friend and the whole family to clean up the creek, eat free food, and win wonderful prizes from one of our wonderful sponsors who have stuck with us for so long.

Published by William Bussard

Camp, fly fish, clean up, write. Three daughters. Staying out of trouble.

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