Please consider joining our organization. Dues for a year membership plus our 4 times per year newsletter, The Truckee River Times , is only $20. We are a non-profit, tax-exempt group. Contributions are always welcome, too. Write to us:
Truckee River Yacht Club
1755 E. Plumb Ln., #170
Reno, NV 89502
The Truckee River Yacht Club plays and works to protect the Truckee River. We are true to our name as we annually take to the river (in yachts that look a lot like rafts) to show public officials, conservationists, recreationists, and others how important the river is to each of us who live near it -- in Nevada and California.
Formed in the late 1980's to stop the Army Corps of Engineers flood control plan, the Truckee River Yacht Club has evolved into a community voice for river restoration, natural flood plain preservation, and recreation along the river via a river pathway system for nature lovers, walkers, joggers, bike riders, skaters -- all of us. We are still challenged by the Army Corps of Engineers preferred solution to flooding which would erect concrete flood walls and dirt levees (up to 16 feet high--one and a half stories) along the river banks.
The "Yacht Club" has sponsored cleanups in parks throughout Reno and Sparks and has worked on developing programs to keep our parks clean and enjoyable. Recently we were a part of "Champions of the River" to revitalize the river corridor with cleanups, and the creation of a new park next to the Reno Gazette-Journal Building on Kuenzli Street -- the John Champion Park.
Early on we spearheaded the stencil program on the storm drains
throughout the urban area in Reno and Sparks. The message "Drains to River"
(with a fish logo) reminds residents that the river ultimately receives the
discharges from our streets from rain and snow. The goal is to stop all of
us from casually dumping harmful material such as oil, paint, fertilizer,
pesticides and herbicides, and other toxic stuff. Once it gets in the river,
it can injure or kill aquatic animals and plants; and it is our drinking
water! Keeping oil and chemicals out of the drains keeps them out of
the river, too!