The Port of Paducah Propeller Club’s annual Maritime Day Ceremony and Merchant Mariner Memorial on May 21 honored Chad Pregracke as maritime person of the year and Tim Cahill as… Read More
Living Lands & Waters
Living Lands & Waters, the non-profit environmental and river cleanup organization serving hundreds of miles of rivers, will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a barge party June 16 in the… Read More
Chad Pregracke, famed river cleanup activist, founder and CEO of Living Lands & Waters, was the plenary speaker at the inaugural Great River Collaborative Conference held at Culver-Stockton College April… Read More
River cleanup and environmental advocacy organization Living Lands & Waters typically cleans 500,00 to 700,000 pounds of garbage from the nation’s rivers each year. “This is 1.2 million pounds we’ve… Read More
A well-known river cleanup and environmental advocacy organization is taking on a mission to convert an old interstate bridge into a unique park for bison crossing over the Mississippi River. Read More
Twelve members of the Ohio Valley chapter of Women in Maritime Operations (WIMOs) participated in a river cleanup in July with Living Lands & Waters. “One of the most impactful… Read More
The not-for-profit organization Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful (KTTRB) removed 9,208 pounds of trash from the river in a three-day January cleanup in partnership with Johnsonville State Historic Park. Twenty-five… Read More
The coronavirus has thrown some speed bumps into the river cleanup mission of Living Lands & Waters but has not been able to stop it. This year, LLW began its… Read More
Wednesday, April 22, marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The American Waterways Operators (AWO) partnered with RiverWorks Discovery, an outreach program of the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium and the National Rivers Hall of… Read More
This spring’s unprecedented flooding across most river systems shut down commercial navigation over large stretches of the waterways. One thing it didn’t shut down was the cleanup work of Living… Read More
