HARLEYVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- Volunteers are wading into a South Carolina swamp to make it cleaner.
Workers will spread out on Saturday in the Francis Beidler Forest about midway between Columbia and Charleston to clean up areas around Four Holes Swamp.
They're concentrating on woods that parallel the route taken by garbage trucks to a local landfill. Trash often blows out of the trucks and into the swamp.
The cleanup not only helps the swamp, but downstream areas because as the swamp water rises, the trash is often carried downstream.
The Beidler Forest is owned by the National Audubon Society. It is comprised of 15,000 acres of bottom land and swamp in Four Holes Swamp, which feeds the Edisto River off Interstate 26.
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