LoCo Trash Bash

The Colorado River.

Carving across the great State of Texas, and straight through the heart of Austin, the beautiful Colorado River begins in NW Texas near Lubbock and drains SE all the way to the Texas coast at Matagorda Bay.

Austin sits half-way between the headwaters of the Colorado River and Matagorda Bay and is uniquely positioned at the head of a bottle neck in the watershed. Longhorn Dam, on Austin’s east side, is the last major dam on the Colorado River. From there, it’s a straight shot to the coast for any trash that makes its way into the river.

The LoCo Trash Bash.

All Water Guides + Cleanup the Colorado decided to target the problem through a grassroots river cleanup focusing on the first 40 miles of the Lower Colorado River below Longhorn Dam.

In 2018 and 2019, hundreds of volunteers participating in the LoCo Trash Bash pulled out 14 tons of trash in the river and along the banks.

Cleanup while floating a section of the river or cleanup on the banks!