River Road Adopt-a-Road Cleanup 2025

We are happy to report we completed our 8th Spring clean-up of East River Road from Sleights Rd to Garfield this April.  Although plans for Monday were scuppered by snow, we managed to get it all done later in the week.  The main team of eight (Tom, Bob G, Bob S, Jim, Joe, Dana, Mike & Andrew) covered the stretch from Sleights to the first bridge.  Toby picked up between the bridges and Ted & Margaret took care of the second bridge to Garfield.  Glad to report the volume wasn’t too bad - about 16 bags.  There was nothing large just the regular assortment of bottles, cups, cans, bags, auto wreckage, & tires.  However the bar was raised this year, by Bob G, for the most notable item - a $100 bill!  Now there’s an incentive to get out there each year!

River Road provides access to the middle and upper branches of the Boardman-Ottaway & the Brook Trout Coalition feels it’s important to clean it up each Spring before the recreational season for the river kicks off.

5th Annual Adopt-a-Road Cleanup on River Road

Thanks to the hard work of the BTC Adopt-A-Road team, we completed the clean up of the section of River road from Sleights Rd to Garfield on April 15th.  Two team members (Ted & Margaret) had already cleaned up the stretch from the first bridge to Garfield.  The intrepid team (Tom, Bob S, Bob G, Andrew, Jim, Karen and Jen) started at Boardman Plains Rd and finished at the first bridge next to the Railroad bridge.  Although there were no hot tubs this year, we found a bicycle & the regular assortment of bottles, plastic bags, straws, cups, auto wreckage, tires etc.  The whole effort took about  20 garbage bags! This was the 5th year BTC has completed the River road clean up & we’re happy to report that we’ve seen an improvement from the early years.  River Road provides access to the middle and upper sections of the Boardman and it’s important to clean it up each year before recreational usage of the river kicks off.