ARC partners with Chattahoochee River Keepers on their efforts to keep our Chattahoochee River safe and healthy. Earn ARC volunteer hours by participating in these volunteer opportunities:

• Sweep The Hooch – An annual clean up effort that includes 600 volunteers removing trash from The Chattahoochee River.
• Ongoing Water Samples – Collect water samples each week from the Chattahoochee River and deliver them to Chattahoochee River Keepers for testing. These tests indicate eColi counts in the river. Contact Emily Giattina at egiattina@gmail.com  for more information.

Chattahoochee Riverkeeper’s mission is to advocate and secure the protection and stewardship of the Chattahoochee River, its tributaries and watershed, in order to restore and preserve their ecological health for the people and wildlife that depend on the river system.

Established in 1994, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper’s is an environmental advocacy organization with more than 5,000 members dedicated solely to protecting and restoring the Chattahoochee River Basin — drinking water source for 3.5 million people.Chattahoochee Riverkeeper’s was the 11th licensed program in the international Waterkeeper Alliance, now close to 200 organizations strong.

From the north Georgia mountains to the Florida border, the Chattahoochee River is impacted by unplanned development, storm runoff and trash from industries, roads, and construction sites, and discharges from sewage treatment plants. Withdrawals from the river by municipalities and industries also affect its health through consumptive loss of water that is not returned to the river, impacting downstream water quality, recreation and ecology. While significant improvements have been made in the river, much remains to be accomplished.

Chattahoochee Riverkeeper’s actively uses advocacy, education, research, communication, cooperation, monitoring and legal actions to protect and preserve the Chattahoochee and its watershed.

Keep Roswell Beautiful (KRB) is a volunteer organization whose mission is to educate, motivate and empower the citizens and businesses of Roswell in the beautification, conservation and preservation of our environment. The group uses community education and programs which promote litter control, recycling, and community beautification to reach their goals. KRB works with the City of Roswell Environmental/Public Works Department to bring such programs as Adopt-A-Road, Adopt-A-Stream, Storm Drain Stenciling, Great American Cleanup, Bring One for the Chipper and Rivers Alive River Cleanup to the citizens of Roswell.

For more information about Keep Roswell Beautiful, Inc., contact 770/641-3715 or info@keeproswellbeautiful.org.

Provide unique learning experiences focused on the Chattahoochee River that connect people to the natural world and empower them to positively impact their local environments.

Our goal for the youth community: to foster an active awareness and understanding of the ecology of the natural world through interactive, hands-on learning experiences. Our goal for the adult community: to provide a local place for adult learning experiences, volunteerism, and outdoor family activities that strengthens the environmental stewardship commitment within the community.

• Providing life long learning opportunities

• Our role as a vital part of the community’s educational, scientific and cultural life.

• Fostering a personal awareness that we are ‘a part of’ and not ‘apart from’ the natural world

• Honesty and integrity