River Aid San Antonio Archives - San Antonio Report

Osprey Initiative Senior Field Manager, Jack Bates and Project Coordinator, Julian Valencia install a litter boom in Comanche Park Friday. This system will help to collect trash that comes downstream. River Aid San Antonio volunteers will come twice a month to clean out the trash that the boom collected.

City, county install new ‘trash tech’ to help clean up Salado Creek

by Lindsey Carnett November 9, 2024November 9, 2024

City and county officials celebrated the introduction of two new litter collection devices into the Salado Creekway system on Friday.

River Aid kicks off its first Basura Bash with more than 2,500 volunteers

by Lindsey Carnett February 17, 2024February 19, 2024

Daniel Alcorta carries his 18-month-old son Ezekiel while collecting trash along the banks of Olmos Creek during the annual Basura Bash cleanup day in 2022.

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Listen: River Aid San Antonio has big plans for Basura Bash, the city’s waterway cleanup effort

by Lindsey Carnett February 6, 2024February 5, 2024

A cyclist rides over Alazan Creek at the intersection of the Apache Creek and Alazan Creek greenways.

The Trailist: Trail network brings change and outdoor access to the Westside Creeks

by Brendan Gibbons May 7, 2023May 7, 2023

The banks of the San Antonio River along the Mission Reach are lined with litter including tarps, plastic bags and styrofoam.

A river of litter: San Antonio’s Mission Reach defaced by storms and Fiesta

by Robert Rivard May 7, 2023May 7, 2023

Volunteers pose with their trash haul after a cleanup at Tobin Park.

The Trailist: River Aid San Antonio bonds residents in effort to care for local waterways

by Brendan Gibbons July 3, 2022July 2, 2022

Fiesta generates heaps of trash and litter that gets left behind every year.

Why can’t San Antonio clean up its act?

by Robert Rivard April 21, 2022April 20, 2022

Ludivine Varga crouches down next to her mother Marina as they collect trash from Olmos Creek during the annual Basura Bash cleanup day on Saturday.

Basura Bash: Time to grow San Antonio’s annual litter cleanup

by Robert Rivard February 20, 2022February 20, 2022