Renew our RIvers gets help from Jail inmates

The Etowah County Sheriff’s Office is working to clean up the county by joining the efforts of Renew Our Rivers this week.  More than 35 inmates, from the Substance Abuse Prevention Program (SAPP), will spend the week, supervised by deputies, picking up trash and removing debris from the river banks of the Coosa River.    Inmates begin work with the Renew Our Rivers campaign today and will continue through Friday, May 2.  Collected trash and debris can be seen in the parking lot of the Mort Glosser Amphitheatre.  Renew Our Rivers is an award-winning environmental river cleanup program that began as Renew the Coosa, a vision of retired Alabama Power employee Gene Phifer.  More than 10 million pounds of trash and debris have been removed from Alabama and Southeast Rivers since the campaign began.