Volunteers set for cleanup at LV Wash

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Friday, April 9, 1999 | 10:47 a.m.

More than 1,000 volunteers are expected to help clean up the Las Vegas Wash on Saturday.

Last year more than 600 people started the wash cleanup to remove anything from food wrappers to old tires from a stretch of wetlands that helps clean drinking water and offers habitat to wildlife, Kim Zikmund, manager for the Las Vegas Wash Project Team, said.

Team members include Friends of the Desert Wetlands Park and the Las Vegas Wash Coordination Committee, groups that support a restored wetlands. Where once 2,000 acres of cattail marshes grew, fewer than 200 acres remain today.

For those participating in the cleanup, registration begins at 7 a.m. in the parking lot of Sam Boyd Stadium at the eastern end of Russell Road. Shuttle buses will take volunteers to cleanup sites. Then volunteers will be treated to a water fair and a barbecue.