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Top left: Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon presents her proclamation to
Kathleen Gibi, KTnRB Executive Director, at a press conference kicking
off KTnRWB Month in Knoxville on Oct. 1, 2025.
Top right: Volunteers and crew from KTnRB and Living Lands & Waters
pose with two full trash boats with unmatched views in the background
on Nickajack Lake of the Tennessee River.
Left: Kentucky Lake of the Tennessee River in Golden Pond, Ky.:
Volunteers heroically load a 2,000-pound spreader tire onto one of the
KTnRB boats. How did they do it? Physics!
Bottom left: A volunteer hauls her trash collected back to the launch
point with stunning views of Chatuge Lake in the background. The
cleanup touched the shorelines of Georgia and North Carolina.
Bottom right: Team members from TVA ride to the next cleanup site in
the trash boat at a cleanup on South Holston Lake in Abingdon, Va.

Tennessee River watershed have been To register for upcoming cleanups or Going beyond the crucial river cleanups,
proclaimed over the years. to learn more about Keep the Tennessee the organization manages conservation
As KTnRWB Month is celebrated River Beautiful, please visit www. programs such as Adopt a River Mile and
in different states, local Keep America KeepTNRiverBeautiful.org. a freshwater mussel conservation program
Beautiful affiliates, as well as the state Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful® and has a network of partners helping
affiliates of Keep Tennessee Beautiful, is a 501c3 nonprofit and is the first Keep to manage various forms of Keep the
Keep Alabama Beautiful, and Keep America Beautiful affiliate in the nation Tennessee River Beautiful infrastructure
Mississippi Beautiful, also participate and to focus solely on a river. Its mission is to that either prevents or mitigates litter
support the campaign. rally communities along the Tennessee presence in our waterways. The Tennessee
What’s Next River and its tributaries to preserve, River watershed reaches into the seven
At the time of TPW Magazine’s improve and protect the river for states of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi,
publishing, KTnRB was pursuing its generations to come. To date, over 5,293 Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, and
2025 goal to remove 200,000 lbs. of trash volunteers have helped the organization Georgia, is the most biodiverse river
presented by Clayton Home Building to remove 1,017,672 lbs. of trash along system in North America, and generates
Group. the 652-mile Tennessee River and its an annual $12 billion just in the recreation
tributaries that reach into seven states. alone.

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