Help Keep San Marcos Beautiful

Email Amy Kirwin or call 512-393-8407 and we will work with you.

Adopt-a-Spot

• Your group will be responsible for cleaning and beautifying your own spot of San Marcos at least six times a year
• One of your cleanups can be the Great Texas River Clean Up, held the first Saturday in March, or Don't Mess with Texas Trash-Off, the largest cleanup day for the State of Texas
• Forms:
  Adoption Registration
  Cleanup Sign In & Summary Report
  Liability Waiver

Cleanups

• Community
• Please submit your request at least two weeks before your cleanup event.
• For ongoing cleanups, please view our Adopt-a-Spot program.
• The Don’t Mess with Texas Trash-Off event is held once a year.
• Hot Spot Clean Up- first Saturday of each month. The Habitat Conservation Plan and KSMB have partnered to focus on an area of litter that will effect the San Marcos River with a concentration on little pieces of litter that aquatic life will mistake for food.
• Those interested in receiving email alerts about Hot Spot and other clean up events for dates and times, please email Amy Kirwin.
• River
• The Great Texas River Cleanup is held the first Saturday of March each year.

Graffiti Removal

• In order to quickly remove tags and stop graffiti, Email: graffiti@sanmarcostx.gov with the address of any tags
• Learn how to prevent graffiti

Environmental Education

• Utilize our educational tools on litter prevention, waste reduction, community beautification, and graffiti prevention
• Schedule a presentation for your school, class, youth or civic/service group, please email the KSMB Coordinator
• Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch documentary screening: KSMB has screening rights for the documentary (This is a good conversation starter about plastics in water streams)

Mural Arts

• Community meetings will be held in order to gain citizen input for designs.
• There will be opportunities for the community to get involved and assist with painting murals.