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Stormwater directly impacts the quality of our waterways, neighborhoods, communities, and environment. Join the Caltrans Stormwater Program in keeping our highways and waterways pollution-free.
Stormwater Program Partner Cleanup Events
- July 4: Pacout Green Team's Eureka Waterfront Trail Cleanup, Elk River Park and Ride, Eureka, CA from 8:45 am – 10 am
- July 5: Sonoma Coast Surfrider’s North Salmon Creek Beach Cleanup, Bodega Bay, CA 10 am-noon
- July 5: Surfrider Long Beach’s Beach Cleanup at Belmont Pier!, Long Beach, CA 9-11 am
- July 5: Russian Riverkeeper’s Cloverdale Russian River Cleanup, First Street Bridge Parking Lot Cloverdale, CA, from 9am - 11am
- July 11: Orange County Coastkeeper’s Huntington State Beach Tower 9 Cleanup, Huntington State Beach Tower 2, 22355 E Pacific Coast Hwy, Huntington Beach, CA from 9-11 am
- July 11: Surfrider Ventura County’s Respect the Rincon Parkway Beach Cleanup, Ventura, CA 9-11 am
- July 11: South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition’s TEAM 222 Cleanup on Guadalupe River Park at Skyport Drive, 1703 Technology Drive, San Jose, CA from 9-11 am
- July 12: Refuse Refuse SF’s Sunset Dunes Cleanup, 1400 Great Highway, San Francisco from 1-3pm
- July 18: Inland Empire Waterkeeper’s Martha McLean-Anza Narrows Park River Cleanup, 5759 Jurupa Ave., Riverside, CA from 9am - 11am
- July 23: Pitch In Santa Cruz’s Neighborhood/Waterway Cleanup, location TBD-visit link closer to date, 9-11am
- July 25: Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful’s Trash Travels: Clean Here, Protect Everywhere, San Jose, CA from 9-11 am
- July 25: Surfrider San Mateo County’s Beach Clean Up – Poplar Beach (HMB), Half Moon Bay, CA from 9 am – 11 am
- Aug. 1: PacOut Green Team’s Eureka Trash Bash, Eureka’s Elk River/Herrick Ave Park & Ride, 9-10:30 am
- Aug. 1: Orange County Coastkeeper’s Calafia Beach Cleanup, San Clemente State Park, 250 Avenida Califia, San Clemente, CA from 9am - 11am
- Aug. 15: Surfrider Ventura County’s Ormond Beach and Wetlands Cleanup, Ventura, CA 9-noon
- Aug. 15: Heal the Bay’s Nothing But Sand Beach Cleanup, Will Rogers State Beach – Tower 6, 17000 Pacific Coast Hwy, Pacific Palisades, CA 10am-noon
- Aug. 15: Inland Empire Waterkeeper’s Martha McLean-Anza Narrows Park River Cleanup, 5759 Jurupa Ave., Riverside, CA from 9am - 11am
- Aug. 22: Surfrider San Mateo County’s Dunes Beach Clean Up, Half Moon Bay, CA from 9 am – 11 am
- Sept. 7: Sonoma Coast Surfrider’s North Salmon Creek Beach Cleanup, Bodega Bay, CA 10 am-noon
- Ongoing: American River Parkway Foundation cleanups, Sacramento
- Ongoing: Inland Empire Waterkeeper cleanups
- Ongoing:KeepCoyoteCreekBeautiful.org, San Jose
- Ongoing: Orange County Coastkeeper cleanups
- Ongoing: Pitch In Santa Cruz County
- Ongoing: Refuse Refuse San Francisco cleanups
- Ongoing: River City Water Way Alliance cleanups, Sacramento
Wish to promote here your group’s future cleanup of a river, bay or beach? Email a link and the details to jeff.burdick@dot.ca.gov
#Stormwater #CleanWaterCA
Transporting unsecured loose items both big and small can create major hazards for drivers. For your safety & the safety of everyone on our shared roads, please secure your load. Take the extra step of tarping & tying.
— Caltrans HQ (@CaltransHQ) June 6, 2026
Remember, it’s the law.
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