College students pick up 75,000 pounds of trash from McKellar Lake
Zoee Wilkinson, a freshman at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point spends her spring break cleaning trash on the banks of McKellar Lake, with help from Living Lands & Waters on Thursday, March 23, 2023. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
College students from nearly a dozen universities removed 75,000 pounds of trash from McKellar Lake in the past three weeks, intercepting it before it entered the Mississippi River.
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Mississippi River McKellar Lake Living Lands and WaterKeely Brewer
Keely Brewer is a Report for America corps member covering environmental impacts on communities of color in Memphis. She is working in partnership with the Ag & Water Desk, a sustainable reporting network aimed at telling water and agriculture stories across the Mississippi River Basin.
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