Description: Annual community cleanup days dedicated to keeping SML looking its best | May 4, 2024
Community volunteers collected approximately 8.8 tons of debris as part of the 35th Annual Take Pride in Smith Mountain Lake (TPISML) cleanup days according to the final 2023 collection report released today.
Bill Butterfield, one of the event’s organizers, said the amount collected throughout the month of May was double that of 2022, and more than twice as many people participated.
“We had 364 volunteers fill an estimated 1,000 trash bags with debris that would otherwise be in the lake,” said Butterfield, president of the Smith Mountain Lake Association (SMLA), which organizes the program in collaboration with the Tri-County Lakes Administrative Commission (TLAC) and the SML Regional Chamber of Commerce (SMLRCC).