Upcoming Events
Saturday, October 6, 2012 – Clean Jordan Lake’s Annual Cleanup. Details in coming months at our Meetup.com website.
Summary of Past Cleanup Events
| Date | Group | # of Volunteers | Shoreline Area Cleaned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr. 15, 2012 | NC Geocachers+Alpha Phi Omega (Elon U.) | 55 | East side Haw River arm |
| Mar. 17, 2012 | General Public-HRA4 | 70 | Stinkin Creek, West side Haw River arm |
| Oct. 6, 2011 | General Public1 | 12 | East side Haw River arm |
| Oct. 1, 2011 | General Public1 | 150 | East side Haw River arm |
| Sept. 30, 2011 | Biogen Idec2 | 60 | Fishing Access Points (7) on E. side of lake |
| Sept. 28 2011 | GSK3 | 50 | West side Haw River arm-Stinking Creek |
| May 10, 2011 | Change the Triangle | 22 | East side Haw River arm |
| May 22, 2011 | Green Hope High | 7 | Fishing Access off Lystra Rd |
| Apr. 30, 2011 | Triangle Fly Fishers | 20 | West side Haw River arm near Canoe Access |
| Mar. 27, 2011 | Green Hope High | 3 | Glass beach off Pea Ridge Rd. |
| Mar. 12, 2011 | General Public-HRA4 | 70 | West side Haw River arm near Poe’Ridge |
| Oct 9, 2010 | General Public1 | 200 | East side Haw River arm |
| Sept. 14, 2010 | GSK3 | 100 | East side Haw River arm |
| 25 | Glass beach off Pea Ridge Rd. | ||
| 25 | Martha’s Chapel Rd. Beach Access | ||
| June 10, 2010 | Change the Triangle | 25 | East side Haw River arm |
| May 8, 2010 | General public | 100 | East side of Haw River arm |
| Mar. 20, 2010 | General Public-HRA4 | 75 | West side of Haw River arm |
FOOTNOTES:
1In coordination with Annual NC Big Sweep Event
2Biogen Idec’s We Care Deeply Day- Annual Community Service
3GlaxoSmithKline’s Orange Day- Annual Community Service
4In coordination with the Haw River Assembly’s Annual Clean-Up-A-Thon
Charting our CleanUp Process
March 17, 2012 Cleanup a Great Success
Working as part the annual Haw River Assembly’s Clean-Up-A-Thon, CJL attracted 70 participants who picked up 100 tires and 300 bags of trash. Boaters and walkers took part. One fellow had just moved here from Maine, lives near the lake and just happened to see our CJL signs leading to the event registration site. He then drove home and got his boat and came back to help!
Howard Harlow (L) and Khiem Lam (R) Admiring "Trash Art"
NC Geocachers and Elon University’s Alpha Phi Omega Join Forces
About 40 members of the NC Geocacher Organization joined with 15 pledges to the Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity at Elon University at the shoreline of Wilderness Island on Sunday, April 15. Trash and tires were removed around two coves facing out toward the Haw River Arm. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and CJL combined to ferry the trash back to a boat ramp for disposal. Take a look at that boat load of stuff that should never end up on a lake’s shoreline, especially a lake that is heavily used for recreation and is a public water supply!
This same area of Wilderness Island was cleaned by CJL volunteers in October 2010. So this follow up event gives an idea of how fast trash gets redeposited as result of rainfall events flushing it into Haw River upstream. About 200 volunteers were needed in October 2010 to remove 700 bags of trash and 600 tires that had accumulated over decades. Now, 1 1/2 years later, only 61 bags of trash and 11 tires needed to be removed. The hope is that we have entered a “maintenance mode” wherein volunteers can keep up with the annual accumulation of trash. Nevertheless, the task is daunting and we thank volunteers like those NC Geocachers and Alpha Phi Omega pledges for making progress possible!
Mapping Our Cleanup Progress
- Trash from stormwater runoff events in the Haw River watershed
- Trash from recreational use at points accessible by foot from nearby roads
- Nearly six miles of shoreline along the Haw River Arm have been cleaned. Another 4.5 miles are targeted for cleanup in 2012.
- Eight areas of shoreline that are heavily used for recreation (all outside of the Jordan Lake State Recreation Area) from south to north along the lake have been cleaned at least once. Our hope is that the Adopt-A-Shoreline Program will help to keep clean these and other recreational use areas that volunteer group may adopt.