Earth Day Watershed Cleanup

Join us on a Potomac Watershed cleanup day and help keep our waters clean!

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The Annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup has become a decisive catalyst for progress that ignites people throughout the watershed with the Alice Ferguson Foundation's community spirit. The largest regional event of its kind, the Cleanup provides a transforming experience that engages citizens and community leaders and generates momentum for change.

To inquire about volunteering, email us or call [phone]. See current volunteer opportunities.

 

Counties in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, District of Columbia and Maryland are in the Potomac River Watershed.

Courtesy Alice Ferguson Foundation

What is a Watershed?

A watershed is an area of land that drains into a body of water. When rain falls it lands on trees, grass, homes, roads, farms, parking lots, gardens, schools and more. Natural surfaces absorb that water, but paved surfaces, buildings, and landscaped plots send most of the water flowing over land, downhill to nearby streams. We call that water runoff, and it carries with it anything that's on the land –soil, fertilizer, trash and more. In our region, all of those streams eventually meet the Potomac River.