Irvine Nature Center

Begun in the mid-1970s as the Jones Falls Watershed Cleanup and led by Irvine since 1977, Project Clean Stream is an annual regional stream clean up engaging more than 1,000 Marylanders in cleaning up their watersheds and their communities. In 2004 Irvine turned the helm of the event over to the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, although we remain an active partner in both the planning and implementation of the event.

Here's how the event works:
Irvine and other partner organizations work with local community organizations and leaders to determine clean-up locations and recruit Site Captains to help lead the clean up effort.

Site Captains lead local stream clean ups throughout the region. Site Captains pick up the clean up supplies (provided) at a meeting (one is held here at Irvine 2 weeks prior to the event), manage their site's volunteers for the day and send the cleanup results (# of volunteers, pounds of trash cleaned, etc.) to the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.

The next Project Clean Stream will be held on Saturday, April 2, 2011 from 9 am - noon.  For more information on Project Clean Stream, contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it at 443-738-9232.