Since it was implemented in the mid-1980s, The Great

Lake Allatoona Clean Up has won numerous accolades,

including the Take Pride in America Award from 1986 to

1989 and 1991, Certificate of Environmental Achievement

awards from Renew America from 1996 to 1998, Public

Lands Day Award in 1986 and a Keep America Beautiful

award in 1995.

In 2018 innovations were made to further GLAC’s anti

litter message all year long by adding new teams of volun-

teers: The Dive Shop (A Dive team getting to the very bot-

tom), Water Warrior Team (vessel owning volunteers who

organize cleanups throughout the year reaching hard to get

to places), Zone Captains (Adopt a Shoreline teams who

coordinate with the winter warriors) and businesses such

as DOW Chemical (who partner with GLAC members to

conduct cleanups during the year), The Great American

Cleanup 2018, during its 33 years has over 7 million dol-

lars of volunteer value, an average of $237,601.36 annual-

ly.

year volunteers bags tonnage #/person tires elevation GLAC Date

1986 4633 7700 36.49 15.75 823.06 9/13/1986

1987 2300 3500 16.00 13.91 832.32 9/12/1987

1988 4059 3500 16.00 7.88 830.28 9/24/1988

1989 2500 3000 14.00 11.20 839.02 9/16/1989

1990 4600 4398 20.00 8.70 834.39 9/22/1990

1991 4860 3035 14.38 5.92 838.16 9/21/1991

1992 4518 4210 19.90 8.81 837.44 9/19/1992

1993 3896 2500 11.84 6.08 834.26 9/18/1993

1994 3000 2000 9.48 6.32 838.73 9/17/1994

1995 3854 3798 18.00 9.34 834.18 9/16/1995

1996 4328 4180 20.86 9.64 836.86 9/14/1996

1997 5026 2885 13.67 5.44 837.24 9/13/1997

1998 4362 2394 11.44 5.25 834.43 9/19/1998

1999 4590 3827 18.18 7.92 832.65 9/18/1999

2000 5769 2459 17.43 6.04 829.08 9/16/2000

2001 4839 2342 11.13 4.60 835.41 9/15/2001

2002 3987 2586 20.49 10.28 829.72 9/14/2002

2003 4746 2586 12.00 5.06 837.78 9/20/2003

2004 2358 500 1.50 1.27 845.60 9/18/2004

2005 3534 2534 12.59 7.13 837.54 9/24/2005

2006 3548 4412 20.00 11.27 831.59 9/23/2006

2007 3800 33.00 17.37 828.80 9/15/2007

2008 836.71 9/13/2008

2009 4000 42.00 836.85 9/12/2009

2010 3363 11.00 836.60 9/18/2010

2011 3627 20.50 833.10 9/17/2011

2012 4133 5.29 2.56 299 827.45 9/22/2012

2013 3877 3.80 1.96 395 840.26 9/28/2013

2014 3571 5.62 3.15 62 838.08 9/27/2014

2015 3200 11.00 6.88 106 839.34 9/12/2015

2016 2479 4.00 3.23 125 837.47 9/27/2016

2017 3099 7.31 4.54 45 837.61 9/28/2017

2018 3127 7.11 4.55 225 834.07 10/6/2018

2019 10/5/2019

Actual #

VOL 123583

Total

#Tires

Average #

Vol over 33

yrs 3744.939

Total Ton-

nage over

33 yrs

486.01

1257

Great Lake Allatoona - A Great American Cleanup Event

Keep Bartow Beautiful (members of the GLAC Committee) brought 21 stu-dents, 1 teacher, 3 Chamber Leadership members and 6 Master Gardeners

as VOLUNTEERS (31) to the 2018 Great Lake Allatoona CLeanup after event. Each volunteer worked at least 3.5 hours totaling 108.5 volunteer

hours interacting with cleanup volunteers—3,127 were registered. The 21 Cass High Students, led by teacher Chuck Bohannon, presented

activities from KBB’s “Water Works for Kids” (water education program) at River Side Day use Park (513 Allatoona Dam Road SE, Cartersville, GA,

30121). These activities are set up as games and are geared to make par-ticipants aware of the importance of preserving/conserving WATER (a nat-

ural resource we can’t live without). Our volunteers (3 adults - Kaysi Darrah, Linda Fleetwod, and Nichole Varnell) from The Chamber Leader-

ship Team, gave the two person KBB staff some much needed help this year handling crowds,

handing out information and providing the young

attendees, who completed each activity, a T shirt. The GLAC event is a great way for KBB to impact large numbers of kids and their parents with water related education. This year’s October 6 event re-moved 7.11 tons of debris and 225 tires from the lake. Additionally, and for the first time, several smaller cleanups were conducted by the newly formed “Winter Warri-ors” group. These “warriors” were able to get to areas by water that have been im-

possible to reach by volunteers from the shoreline in the past. Using an average of 25 lbs (increased from the normal 20lbs to account for the heavier weight of type of items being removed (metal, bottles etc.)) x 840 bags - they removed an additional

10.5 tons and 246 tires. Increasing the overall total of trash removed our water resource to 17.61 tons and 471 Tires.

21 Cass High School Student volunteers and teacher Chuck Bohannon

led KBB’s “Water Works for Kids” water education activities

Cleanup & Educational Event - 10/06/2018

TRASH COLLECTED on October 6th

Location of Dump-ster Tons

Allatoona Landing 2.80

Cherokee Mills 2.01

Victoria Landing 2.20

City of Acworth 0.10

Total 7.11

*2018 LAKE WARRIORS (09 JAN-16 SEP)

Volunteers 259

Volunteer Hrs. 1162.5 x $24.69

= $28,702.13

Bags 840

Tires 246

TIRES COLLECTED 225

Cass High School students helped KBB with

Five activies. 1 - Some of them donned the

Etowah and Cherokee Darter costumes bring-

ing to life The message of “small fish but

HUGE environmental indicator” as darters

need a quality habitat to survive. 2 - Other

students took turns

being the “Bag

Monster” (plastic

bags making up a

large portion of

detrimental litter)

demonstrating the

number of plastic

bags one person

uses in a year.

Many of the cleanup volunteers

who take part in the education-

al activities during the after

event are member of Scout

groups.

3 - Cass Students lead the Scoop

the Poop Race demonstrating

the need to pick up after your

pet.

4 - Cass High students lead

young attendees in the

“Toilet Toss for Water Loss”

game intended to make kids

aware of the amount of wa-

ter is wasted every day do-

ing ordinary things.

5 - Others helped attendees make a water shed with colored markers indicating

all sorts of pollutants that can run into our watershed. Spray bottles of water demonstrate how rain water picks up

these pollutants carrying them into our rivers, lakes and eventually the sea.

Water quality /quantity is an important

part of gardening. Our partners—

Bartow’s Master Gardener’s presented

an art activity and are always around to

answer “growing” questions through

their “Ask A Master Gardener”

program.

For the one Day event 10/6/2018

▪ 24 Boat Captains registered — ▪ 3,127

cleanup volunteers registered

GLAC Mission Statement

The Great Lake Allatoona Clean-

up "GLAC," and its partners will

lead the Lake Allatoona commu-

nity in environmental steward-

ship of the watershed through

education, preservation, conser-

vation, and volunteerism.

GLAC website:

http://

www.lakeallatoonaassoc.com/

the_great_allatoona_clean_up

For more on KBB’s involvement

and past year’s project summar-

ies, go to:

www.bartowga.org/kbb