Float Fest partners with local businesses to help clean the San Marcos river

Additional festival efforts include:

• Cooler checks at the the tubing shuttle pick up tent. No glass or styrofoam is allowed on the river. Float Fest staff will be at the river entrance to assist tubers into the river with their coolers, bags and additional items.
• Float Fest staff will be at the river exit taking tubers mesh bags, disposing them in trash receptacles and providing assistance as they exit the river.
• Two river clean-up stations will be set up along the float with 40 staff members to take trash from tubers as they float by. There will also be lifeguards at these stations.
• A "human net" just beyond the river exit consisting of four people will collect any remaining floating debris that might make it past the exit point.
• Water clean-ups via kayaks and canoes will assist Saturday, Sunday and Monday before, during and after the event.
• Kayak and canoe teams will make regular trips all day Saturday and Sunday during the festival times and into the evening on the river cleaning up trash and helping tubers as needed.
• Divers will do a river bottom clean up on Tuesday following the festival. They will focus on any remaining debris and anything that sunk to the river floor that might have been left behind.