This year was the celebration of the 40th Great Lake Allatoona Cleanup! The cleanup was held on September 27, 2025. There was a total of 1,350 volunteers signed up to volunteer at GLAC, and 1,160 showed up. Volunteers completed 3,480 volunteer hours. There was a total of 2.99 tons of trash and 15 tires removed from the shorelines of Lake Allatoona.
Keep Bartow Beautiful supplied the education piece for the Great Lake Allatoona Cleanup. In the goody bags, handed out before the cleanup, there was a print out with instructions for the education piece. They could scan the QR code which took them to a website and each person could choose from multiple water learning activities. Once they completed one activity, they answered questions on the survey about the activity they chose, then gave feedback from the cleanup. 18 and under participants could complete the activity online to be entered to win a gift card or kayak. 1 kayak and 5 $50 Visa gift cards were awarded by a drawing. This year we had 22 complete the activity to be entered in to win a prize.
The Lake Allatoona Warriors(LW) is a branch of the Lake Allatoona Association and consists of volunteers who conduct year-round cleanup activities focusing on cleaning areas during the fall and winter lake drawdown and remote areas. The LW had 400 volunteers from January 1, 2025 to December 10, 2025. They completed 1,048.75 volunteer hours. The volunteers removed 12.17 tons of trash from around Lake Allatoona. They also removed 9 tires from around Lake Allatoona.
| Lake Warriors (01 January 2025- 10 December 2025) | |
| Volunteers | 400 |
| Volunteer Hours | 1048.75 |
| Tires | 9 |
| Total Weight | 12.17 tons |
