chad pregracke is on a serious mission to get things out of the mississippi river that don\u2019t belong there. since 1998 his non-profit living lands and water has organized clubs, groups and ordinary citizens to haul trash and other debris off the shoreline of the quad cities near his home in moline, illinois. the annual mississippi river xtreme cleanup draws more than 1700 volunteers inspired to make a difference in their community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
chad pregracke is on a serious mission to get things out of the mississippi river that don\u2019t belong there. since 1998 his non-profit living lands and water has organized clubs, groups and ordinary citizens to haul trash and other debris off the shoreline of the quad cities near his home in moline, illinois. the annual…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4899],"tags":[1464,37],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-14138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","tag-mississippi-river","tag-water"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n