(Radio Iowa) – Most of us have plans for the holiday weekend ahead, but if your schedule is open for the -following- weekend, volunteers are needed to help haul the trash out of a north-central Iowa river. Hamilton County Conservation naturalist John Laird said the Boone River clean-up effort will cover more than four miles of the waterway in Hamilton County by canoe. Registration will start at 7:30 A-M on July 8th at Briggs Woods Park in Webster City.

Since the first river clean-up project in 2007, Laird says volunteers have picked up more than 800 tires, more than seven tons of scrap metal, and three and a half tons of trash. Learn more by visiting the Hamilton County Conservation Board Facebook page.