Our Mission
Shenango River Watchers is a non-profit watershed group founded to clean up, preserve and protect the environmental, scenic and recreational attributes of the Shenango River.
Working together, our members and other volunteers have cleared hundreds of tons of garbage and thousands of tires from illegal dump sites along the river, constructed canoe launches, and monitored the water quality of the Shenango River.
Help us to make the river a better place for everyone who lives in or visits the Shenango Valley.
Announcements
Shenango River Watchers Canoe Clean Up — June 19
The Ohio River Sweep, a multi-state clean up effort along the Ohio River, will be held on June 19. Since the Shenango River is a part of the Ohio River Watershed, we will be cleaning some of our part of it on this day as well.
SRW will be holding a canoe clean up originating from the Budd Street Canoe Launch in Sharon starting at around 9:00 AM. A limited number of canoes are available for members use on a first come, first serve basis. All are welcome to bring their own canoes or kayaks as we paddle the waters of the downtown Sharon area to work on this section of the Shenango River. For those who like to keep their feet on land we will also be working to clean the land and river bank areas in and around the canoe launch. We hope to conclude around noon.
If you can help us out on June 19th please pre-register by calling our office so we can arrange for canoes and plan accordingly. This will be a rain or shine event, but in the event of very high, fast water, the use of canoes may be revised. River flows can be checked at the US Army Corps of Engineers Shenango Reservoir information number 724-962-4384.
Fundraising Picnic — Saturday June 26
We will be having a Fundraising Picnic on Saturday, June 26th at the Mercer County Shrine Club Picnic Grounds on Lamor Road in Hermitage. Doors open at 4:00pm, picnic food served at 5:00pm. Lots of activities are planned including a Chinese Auction, Basketball Shoot Out with food being provided by The Buzzard Box and a band for entertainment. Tickets are $20 per adult and $15 for children 12 and under. Please contact the SRW office for YOUR ticket.
Win This Kayak
We are raffling off an Otter XT kayak in Cloud color scheme (blue)
packaged with a Carlisle Day Tripper Paddle and a MTI APF life
jacket. Tickets are $5.00 each and will be sold at all our 2010
events. Drawing to be in September 2010 at the conclusion of Munnel
Run’s Harvest Festival. Contact the SRW office or any board member for
your tickets! Kayak package purchased at
Wiegel on the Water.
For announcements about other upcoming events, please see our events page.
News
Clean Up and Recycling Report — May 29
Our Spring Tire Recycling Collection was held in downtown Sharon on May 29. As has become common when we host a tire collection, well over 1000 tires were taken out or circulation to be put to greater good. The tires gathered will be sent to a recycling company for processing to create useful rubber material and to remove and recycle the included steel. Read more...
Adopt-A-Shore Clean Up with Cub Scout Pack #45 of Sharpsville and SRW — April 25
Our clean up activities to celebrate Earth Day extended into a second weekend this year. On April 25 we spruced up the outflow area (our Adopt-A-Shore area) of the US Army Corps of Engineers Shenango Reservoir Project. We were happy to have about 30 volunteers between the members of Cub Scout Pack #45 (of Sharpsville) and their leaders along with our own SRW members. Read more...
Earth Day Clean Up and Recycling Event — April 17
Our Clean Ups to celebrate Earth Day were in advance of Earth Day this year. We like April to do our Clean Ups for a host of reasons, but April can give you some rude surprises. This year we got one in the form of wind, sleet, snow, and some temperatures less that ideal. That said, we are happy to report that a hardy bunch of volunteers made their way to both Sharon and Jamestown to brave these conditions and make our day a success at both places. Read more...
Earth Day Event in the News
A unique find at the Earth Day Cleanup garnered some local attention and was also picked up by the AP for wider distribution as a public interest story.