"If they put all kinds of garbage in our lakes than we won't have fish" says Abby Back of Girl Scout Troop 7011.

It's a lesson well learned by the Eufaula community and each year the coast guard, Alabama Power, and the marine police remind everyone.

Volunteers from groups like JROTC, Boy scouts, and home schooled children got together to renew their rivers.

This year a new group has become part of the tradition.

"We are the 'Friends of Lake Eufaula' and we are an organization that is designed to protect and promote Lake Eufaula" said Brad Moore, who is on the Board of Directors for Friends of Lake Eufaula

“Renew our rivers” has been going on for 5 years in Barbour County and 11 years in other areas along the gulf coast.

It was not only designed to keep lakes and rivers looking beautiful, but to save wildlife and resources.

"Water is a limited resource. You see a lot with the water wars. Getting water from Lake Lanier down here and keeping the River flowing so it is important that we all protect our water and the limited supply that we have" says Moore.

Each year, hundreds of bags are filled up with garbage and volunteers find things like tires, food containers, even bottle floating around in the lake, and it is always shocking.

"I cannot imagine this. I think about how this stuff gets in here and I do not understand how someone could chuck a refrigerator into the lake and not have any sympathy" said Allyssa Milner of the Eufaula Future Farmers of America.

At the end of the day, 2 tons of trash was taken out of the lake, filling up more than 200 trash bags.

There will be more cleanup efforts on Lake Eufaula.

The next one is scheduled for September 23rd.

For more information on how you can help, contact Dennis Fineout with “Friends of Lake Eufaula”.

His number is 687-1967