June 3 cleanup

After the May 27 cleanup along the south side of the Truckee River from Wells Avenue to Aces Ballpark, Northern Nevada HOPES and Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful decided a northern shore sweep would also be necessary, and on Wednesday, June 3, that cleanup was implemented.This sweep began at the north side of the Wells Avenue bridge to Lake Street/Aces Ballpark. On the river path the volunteers found approximately 45 discarded syringes and collected about 380 grams of syringes and other related injection and substance use related materials.Just like on May 27, the group did a lot of outreach with the folks camped along the riverbank by both providing supplies and educating them about what the volunteers were doing and what those camping on the river could do to help.