Boneyard Creek Community Day

**Thank you to all who participated in this year's event!**
Boneyard Creek Community Day is a way to celebrate and protect our local waterways though cleanup and educational activities.  2025 marked the 20th year of this popular event which draws people of all ages to beautify local waterbodies including the Boneyard Creek, Saline Branch, St Joseph Drainage Ditch, Kaufman Lake, Heritage Lake, Boulware Trail Creek and Mattis Lake.  Participants remove litter and naturalize streams, learning that healthy streams equal a healthy community.    Boneyard Creek Community Day is a way to celebrate and protect our lakes and streams by engaging volunteers to pitch in and clean.  Litter looks bad and leads to more litter.  It clogs storm drains causing local flooding and ends up in receiving streams harming aquatic life.  This event helps remind us all to be responsible citizens and put trash in its place.

Tallies from this year:
  • 484 volunteers
  • 87 cubic yards of trash collected
  • liter removal area of 1060 acres
  • 3.3 miles of shoreline cleaned
  • 16 sponsors
Most Collected Items:
  • cigarette butts
  • plastic bags
  • food wrappers
Cool Items Found
  • crayfish trap
  • air mattress
  • metal bed frame

Mark your calendars for next year's event:  April 2026
For more information about Boneyard Creek Community Day and to register, please visit: www.boneyardcreek.org