2020 Volunteer Registration is closed and Creek Week is cancelled due to COVID-19 directives.
We are exploring the possibility of doing Creek Week in the fall. If that’s not feasible, we will be back in 2021.
In the meantime, keep this in mind: Please reduce your plastic waste.
We can all make a difference by practicing random acts of cleanup.
If everyone picked up one extra piece of trash each day, our impact would be even greater.
Stay healthy!
Public clean-up sites in Rancho Cordova are listed below. Review the site descriptions and check the map links to select your site. Then click the “Volunteer” button to register for your site.
Your information will be sent to our administrative volunteers who may contact you to confirm your clean-up site location, provide you with instructions, and answer any questions you may have. You may be reassigned to a location as space allows.
Please review the checklist to the left to come prepared.
Volunteers will be provided refreshments at 8:45 AM at all clean up sites on Saturday, April 18th. Your team leader will provide you with instructions, garbage bags and help get you started.
If you have registered for a group, please forward our Volunteer Waiver to your members or their parents or guardians.
Younger children are welcome but should be supervised, as this is a concrete lined canal with tall steep banks. Trash collection will occur on top banks and within the concrete channel. DIRECTIONS: SEE MAP Park near Dedo Way and La Loma Drive and walk about 400 yards east along the levee towards River Bend Park Apartments. (volunteer capacity: 20)
No children under 14 unless accompanied by an adult. Volunteers will be picking up litter from residential streets in the Cordova Vineyards neighborhood before it enters our creeks and rivers! Volunteers in Neighborhood Services (VINS) leads this clean-up event. Park and meet at vacant lot at Ribier Way and Aramon Drive (MAP) (volunteer limit: 10)
No children under 14 unless accompanied by an adult. Volunteers will be cleaning a stormwater detention basin within the City of Rancho Cordova’s industrial area. DIRECTIONS: SEE MAP Park on Recycle Road by basin gate entrance near 3440 Recycle Road
No children under 14 unless accompanied by an adult. Volunteers will be cleaning along a low-flow channel with steep vegetated banks. Ladders and/or ropes will be provided to allow for greater ease of access to creek bottom, which is usually dry. Expect to spot singing birds in the brushy trees and look for ground squirrels near their burrows.
DIRECTIONS: SEE MAP Turn onto Old Winery/Horn Rd. off of Folsom Blvd.
Banks are steep. No children under 14 permitted unless accompanied by an adult. Ladders and/or ropes will be provided to allow for greater ease of access to creek bottom, which is usually dry. (volunteer capacity: 30.) DIRECTIONS: SEE MAP Park along S. White Rock.
No children under 14 unless accompanied by an adult. Volunteers will be picking up litter from residential streets in the White Rock neighborhood before it enters our creeks and rivers! Volunteers in Neighborhood Services (VINS) leads this clean-up event. Park and meet at White Rock Community Park (MAP) (volunteer limit: 12)
