Earth Day Owasco River Clean-up Event Seeks Volunteers - April 22, 2023

March 22, 2023 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Celebrate Earth Day 2023 at the Owasco River Clean-up Day

Residents of Auburn are invited to celebrate Earth Day 2023 and help provide some spring cleaning for the Owasco River from the area of the Mill Street Dam through Market Street Park in downtown Auburn. The Owasco River Earth Day Clean-up event will be held on Saturday, April 22, 2023 beginning at 10 a.m. through 12 p.m. noon.

New this year the City of Auburn Department of Municipal Utilities will be on hand at the Mill Street Hydroelectric Facility to provide a 9:30 am Earth Day tour of the facility. At this tour interested participants can learn more about how the Owasco River flow is turned in to energy.

For the 10 am clean-up event volunteers are asked to meet by the Mill Street Dam where Canal Street intersects with Osborne Street in Auburn. Volunteers are encouraged to bring their own gloves and rakes. Supplies such as garbage bags and leaf bags will be provided. There will also be some tools available for those that do not have tools to bring.

All volunteers will be eligible to receive a coupon for a free tree seedling or shrub  from the Cayuga County Soil & Water Conservation District's (CCSWCD) spring Tree & Shrub Sale being held on May 12, 2023 at the natural Resource Center on County House Road in Auburn.  This free tree or shrub program is made possible by the CCSWCD and the Cayuga County Department of Planning & Economic Development with funding provided by Auburn NUCOR.

This event is sponsored by the Auburn Beautification Commission, Cayuga Climate Action, The Auburn Downtown BID and the City of Auburn.
For more information contact:
Sarah Dibble, Chairperson, Auburn Beautification Commission
Phone: 585-414-4907 Email: Auburn.Beautification.Commission@gmail.com
Web: www.BeautifulAuburn.org