2019 Annual Week of Rivers Cleanup the Tuck at Fontana Lake
The club’s annual Tuckaseegee Cleanup is scheduled for Monday, July 1, from 8 a.m to noon on Fontana Lake just outside of Bryson City.
Last year, Carolina Canoe Club members picked up 150 bags of trash into addition to tires and other debris. Can we collect more trash this year?
Bring your boat, paddling gear, snacks and water. The club, Swain Clean and other local sponsors will provide bags, gloves, trash grabbers and more water. Roger Clapp with Watershed Association of the Tuckasegee River is bringing a raft.
We’ll bypass the morning meeting: Pack up Sunday night and be ready to go first thing Monday. It gets hot on the lake so we’re trying to get you on the water early and avoid the afternoon sun.
Print out a map and directions at this URL: https://tinyurl.com/tuckclean
Or plug these coordinates into your GPS device: 35.42844, -83.48532
Here are the directions from Smoky Mountain Meadows:
* Leave campground; cross US 74 and turn right on US 19 at Exxon station.* Turn left at Walgreens in Bryson City; cross bridge* Turn left at Yellow Rose Real Estate onto Bryson Walk (1321)* Follow road along Tuckasegee. Stay left where roads branch right.
Questions? Call me at 919-812-8528 or email me at rjbrueckner@gmail.com
Bob Brueckner
CCC Conservation Chair
All participants in any Carolina Canoe Club (CCC) trip do so as common adventurers. The CCC or its individual members may coordinate paddling trips but no one is considered leader of a trip. As common adventurers, all participants take the responsibility for making their own decisions including, but not limited to, whether it is safe for them to participate on any particular water body, what equipment they need and use, the routes they may choose to paddle, whether their skill levels and abilities are adequate for the activity or whether climate and water conditions are appropriate for their participation. Participants are exclusively responsible for their own safety.
Individual coordinators for all CCC activities set requirements per their sole discretion. The CCC does not necessarily endorse or approve requirements set by coordinators.