The US Army Corps of Engineers, National District, volunteers and volunteer groups are at Lake Convelling today to celebrate National Public Lands Day. And that means only one thing. It's time to pick up trash and debris to make the environment cleaner. There's 1,255 miles of shoreline and hundreds of coves. The effort to pick up litter seems like a daunting task, but it is one that more than 120 volunteers decided to take on because they live in local communities, recreate on the lake, and want to do their part to keep it clean. It's very important to help keep it clean and everybody here at Plackey County are from different counties come here to enjoy the lake and it's important to keep it clean. A team of about a dozen volunteers from Henkel Contracting Company collected into supposed debris from the shoreline of Wittsboro Recreation Area. The National Park Service and Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Service along with the volunteer groups like the Plackey County High School, Future Farmers of America and Junior ROTC worked around the lake to bag up litter and move it to designated boat ramps. We had a lot of dumpsters get filled up and we pulled a lot of tires out of the lake, a lot of useless trash that is polluting our lakes, so I'd say today's event was a success. In one code the cleanup temporarily turned into a wildlife rescue when volunteer and US Coast Guard Commander Jennifer Andrew discovered a trapped turtle under a pile of debris. The commander of the Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit in Paduka, Kentucky worked to move logs pinning it down and enjoyed seeing the freed turtle make its way back into the lake. The US Army Corps of Engineers, National District operates and maintains the Lake Cumberland project and depends on the public to be good stewards of public lands. You know it's never a good idea to litter, don't throw trash out your car, everything that lands on the side of the road if it's not picked up when it rains it goes down into a ditch and the ditch flows into a stream and a stream flows into the lake. So it prevented prevention is the key here. When the lake is full the wind settles its trash back into coves and then when the lake comes down it gets trapped up here sometimes in log piles sometimes just scattered along the shoreline. In celebration of National Public Lands Day volunteers collected and removed 276 bags of trash, 53 rubber tires, an old docked floatation, a metal railing with stairs and a doghouse from Lake Cumberland. If you got a trash just keep it in your boat if you're boating, if you got trash on the bank bring like a trash bag or something you know help out a little bit by picking up your own trash. This is Lee Roberts reporting for the US Army Corps of Engineers on the shoreline of Lake Cumberland and South Central Kentucky.