LAKEPORT, Calif. – A community service organization this week got busy cleaning up one of the Lakeport area’s watersheds.

For their Kiwanis One Day project for 2020 on Saturday, members of the Kiwanis Club of Lakeport – assisted by personnel from the Lakeport Police Department and the city of Lakeport – recovered and properly disposed of four truckloads of trash from the Forbes Creek watershed.

Hundreds of pounds of garbage consisting of metal parts, tires, carpets, shopping carts, mattresses and blankets, food containers, tarpaulins, wood debris with nails and screws, chairs and other decaying materials were removed and transported.

This trash is harmful to wildlife, people, the environment and the water.

The cleanup operations ran the length of the watershed and surrounding land between Bevins Street and Martin Street, with the majority of the trash retrieved from city-owned property.

The Forbes Creek watershed drains to Clear Lake and includes property owned by the city of Lakeport, the fairgrounds, the fire department, Lake County Tribal Health and a private landowner.