Nearly 200 volunteers contributed to cleanup efforts along the Tennessee River and its tributaries, removing about 47,000 pounds of trash in waterways impacted by recent natural disasters.

As part of its seventh annual Tennessee River Grand Slam Cleanup Series, members of the nonprofit organization Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful spent more than two months picking up trash and debris in waterways impacted by Hurricane Helene.

“We’ve been doing this for seven years now, and you get accustomed to the kind of trash you find,” said Kathleen Gibi, executive director of Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful. “With Hurricane Helene, that was the first time I was really like, ‘Wow this was truly powerful water that just destroyed items.’ I mean, we were finding front doors that were split into p

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