Owasco River Clean-up to Celebrate Earth Day 2025

Name: Owasco River Clean-up to Celebrate Earth Day 2025
Start: 2025-04-26T10:00:00-04:00
Location: Mill St, Auburn, NY 13021, United States

Schedule

Sat, 26 Apr, 2025 at 10:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

Mill St, Auburn, NY 13021, United States | Auburn, NY

Celebrate Earth Day 2025 at the Owasco River Clean-up Day!
Residents of Auburn are invited to celebrate Earth Day 2025 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 26, 2025 beginning at 9:30 a.m. through 12 p.m. noon.
9:30 am: the City of Auburn Department of Municipal Utilities will be on hand at the Mill Street Hydroelectric Facility to provide an 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.
10 am volunteer clean-up: 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.
12-3 PM Swap Shop at Auburn Public Theater's (APT) Stage Right. Immediately following the Owasco River clean-up, to continue celebrating our planet by reusing and sharing our materials, walk over to APT with 5-10 clean, usable household materials (NO ELECTRONICS, all items must be carry-in/carry-out) to swap and 'shop' for other items donated by the community. All items are free for the taking, encouraging community building, landfill diversion, and fun for everyone! Participants are encouraged to bring items directly to APT Stage Right, or can drop-off materials at the 10AM Owasco River Clean-up at the Mill Street Dam until 11AM. The Swap Shop portion of the Earth Day festivities will start at 12pm and end at 3PM.
For more info contact Dominic Gambaiani by email at [email protected]
These Earth Day Celebration Events are sponsored by the Auburn Beautification Commission, Cayuga Climate Action, Auburn Downtown BID and the City of Auburn.