Volunteers clean up Lake Travis, surrounding parks

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A group of volunteers spent Sunday morning on the lake, but they weren’t boating, fishing or skiing.
Instead, scuba divers, shoreline walkers and paddle boarders were in the water starting at 8 a.m. cleaning up trash from the lake and surrounding Travis County parks.
The annual cleanup event was started in 1994 by a team of divers and reminds people that “trash travels” and impacts the fun that can be had on the lake.
“The event is about more than tr