St. Joseph-area residents will have an opportunity to clean up the Missouri River by boat this Saturday. Missouri River Relief is hosting its fourth clean-up on the Missouri River in St. Joseph. It runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m, rain or shine. Clean-up headquarters will be French Bottoms Landing, next to the Remington Nature Center. Volunteers, groups and families are encouraged to register here.

Contact Steve Schnarr at Missouri River Relief (573.289.2077 or [email protected]) for more information. Folks are encouraged to register online or they can show up the morning of the clean-up and register at the boat ramp. Event details and more here.

Volunteers will be shuttled out to trashy spots along the Missouri River by a flotilla of boats from Missouri River Relief , Missouri Department of Conservation, Burns & McDonnell and US EPA. Crews will clean-up their stretch of the river, bagging and gathering trash together to be picked up later by Missouri River Relief’s hardworking volunteer boat crews. Trash will be unloaded for proper disposal and recycling at French Bottom Landing.