River Relief

March 6, 2012

March 20 Big Muddy Speaker Series in Rocheport

"Big Muddy Clean Sweep"
Life on a Trash Barge

Presented by Steve Schnarr of Missouri River Relief

7:00 p.m. - Tues. March 20, 2011 (third Tuesday this month!)
lower floor of the Les Bourgeois Vineyards Bistro
in Rocheport, MO (directions below)

Presentation is FREE and open to the public! Come early to purchase a great dinner upstairs at the Bistro!

Group shot after the final peice of trash was loaded onto the trash barge at the Confluence, St. Louis MO

As the keystone event of Missouri River Relief's 10th anniversary, we embarked on a series of Missouri River clean-ups rolling from town to town on a trash barge. The project was called the Big Muddy Clean Sweep, and was the largest scale cleanup of trash on the Missouri River ever undertaken.

Missouri River Relief program manager Steve Schnarr and other crewmembers will share some great stories, photos and results on the event. We'll kick off the presentation with a screening of the 15 minute film that deckhand Jodi Pfefferkorn created about the Big Muddy Clean Sweep.

Working with students, communities, corporations, individual volunteers and partnering organizations, we combined our goals of direct river education with this unique opportunity to remove unprecedented amounts of garbage from a piece of our nation’s longest river.

Directions

• Take I-70 to the Rocheport, MO, exit (Exit #115). It's the first exit east of the Missouri River.
• Head north toward Rocheport.
• After about a mile, turn left at the sign for Les Bourgeois Bistro. Follow the signs to the Bistro. You will probably need to park in the lot above the Bistro and walk the trail down.
• The presentations are held in the lower level. You can either enter at the restaurant entrance then go down the stairs to your left past the bar, or you can follow the walk to the right of the restaurant and enter through a glass door into the lower level.
  
• 14020 W. Hwy BB, Rocheport, MO (click for Google Map)

The River Cleanup Barge Arrives in Jeff City, September 2011