Our mission is to restore, maintain and improve Ohio's rivers and streams, their water quality, scenic beauty, their multiple economic uses, and their effect upon Ohio's quality of life.
Rivers Unlimited accomplishes this mission by engaging citizens and organizations in direct action such as water quality monitoring, stream cleanups, and influencing public policy at the local, state, and national levels.
Volunteers are essential to RU success. Volunteering across all of our programs is an enjoyable and rewarding experience. Join us for our next water quality monitoring or stream cleanup and see for yourself.
Rivers Unlimited's most important asset is our people. Become a member today!
See highlights of recent RU activities and upcoming events below. To open the Rivers Unlimited full calendar of events, click here!
For more information or to volunteer contact the following...
General information, river cleanup, and scenic river designation contact:
Water Quality Monitoring:
GET ON THE WATER!
Rivers Unlimited and Hamilton County Great Parks are hosting canoe-based cleanups this summer.
Winton Woods Park
6:00 - 8:00pm
10245 Winton Road
Cincinnati, OH 45231
MAP
Look for a trailer of canoes in the north parking lot.
Find out what's happening in the waterways of southeast Ohio when watershed affiliated groups get together to discuss their work each month at the Green Umbrella Watershed Action Committee meeting.
More info:
http://greenumbrella.org/watershed-action-team
Join thousands of paddlers on the Ohio River for the annual PaddleFest. Take a side trip up the Mill Creek to meet several RU members assisting the Mill Creek Yacht Club. In this PaddleFest sanctioned excursion, paddlers get an opportunity to view the Brrier Dam.
Citizens' Water Quality Monitoring
Great Miami River Watershed
Lab: UC Center for Field Studies
11053 Oxford Road, 45030
9:00 - 11:00: volunteers drop off samples at the lab
10:30 - early afternoon: lab volunteers analyze samples
Lunch provided.
For more information or to volunteer contact Lisa:
Through a 75% match fund from Clean Ohio Fund, Rivers Unlimited along with several other groups, including The Archaeological Conservancy, Heartlands Earthworks Conservancy, Friends of Serpent Mound, South Central Ohio Preservation Society, and 800 individual donors, helped raise funds to purchase The Junction Group, a complex of at least eight earthen structures spanning 20 acres of farmland near Chillicothe, Ohio.
Read an article in American Archaeology about the site and its purchase.