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Waterway cleanup gets $10 million boost

Leslie Beninato leads a MountainTrue cleanup crew on the French Broad River. The project is now expanding to more counties. [KATIE MYERS/BPR]

By KATIE MYERS, Blue Ridge Public Radio, Published: July 22, 2025

Plenty of big items, like cars and trailers, have been cleaned out from Western North Carolina rivers after Helene but there is still a lot of smaller trash throughout the region’s creeks and streams.

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