On Saturday, September 16, 2023, Keep ULM Beautiful hosted a location for Ouachita Green’s Water Sweep 2023, a waterway cleanup event. During a waterway cleanup, participants come together to remove trash, plastic, marine litter, and other pollution from the water and surrounding areas. This helps preserve the natural beauty of our waterways, supports biodiversity, and keeps our water free flowing.
Participants met at the Library Overhang, closest to Scott Plaza, to begin the cleanup, where gloves, trash bags, handheld grabbing tools, water waders, and magnet fishing kits were made available. Participants split off into five groups, each taking a section of the bayou and surrounding areas from the Bayou Village Apartments down to the VCOM campus and back around the University House, University Library and to the footbridge, to walk through and collect litter.
Water Sweep 2023 was made possible with the support of Ouachita Green and its partner organizations, the ULM Office of Residential Life, and participants doing it for themselves and participants from the following Recognized Student Organizations/Campus Departments/Teams:
· Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
· Alpha Omicron Pi
· Campus Activities Board
· College of Health Sciences Dean's Office
· College Republicans of ULM
· Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
· Honors Program
· Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc.
· Kappa Alpha Order
· National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
· Ouachita Parish High School Student Government Association
· School of Basic Pharmaceutical & Toxicological Sciences
· School of Education
· Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
· Speech-Language Pathology Program
· ULM Resident Assistants & Residents
· ULM Softball
· ULM Staff Senate
· ULM Student Government Association
· ULM TRiO Programs
· Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
There will be another opportunity for a Campus Clean-Up event later this semester. Keep ULM Beautiful can also work together to plan a clean-up event just for your organization. Please contact Andrew Hardee, Keep ULM Beautiful University Affiliate Coordinator, by email at hardee@ulm.edu.