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 Adopt A Highway Program

​ UPDATE: Due to the COVID-19 situation and the Governor’s travel ban for non-essential work, REAP will no longer be performing open dump cleanups, tire collection events, AAH and MIS cleanup events, and any other field duties until the ban has been lifted.  Thank you for your patience and stay safe. The Adopt-A-Highway Program is co-sponsored by the Division of Highways and the Department of Environmental Protection. It was established in the late 1980s under the DNR (now a REAP Program) to improve the quality of our environment by encouraging public involvement in the elimination of highway litter. Its objective is to save taxpayers money by increasing public awareness and to serve as an educational tool by focusing on the consequences which result when littering is allowed to continue unchecked. The program offers volunteers the opportunity to take charge of their environment by making a positive effort to create a cleaner, more aesthetic place in which to live.   Click Here to Submit your forms online

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Adopt A Highway Printable Forms

AAH Application Form

AAH First Cleanup and Sign Order Form

AAH Name Change on Recognition Sign Form

Change Route Request Form

Replacement Sign Request Form

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Adopt A Spot Printable Forms

AAS Application Form

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Frequently Asked Questions

Adopt-A-Highway Rules

• Volunteers must be at least 12 years old to participate in this program.
• Adopting groups must clean adopted roads with their own membership and may not subcontract the work.
• Adopted roads must be two continuous miles long. Locations NOT adoptable are: two separate one-mile sections, one mile on each side of a highway, T-shaped or L-shaped sections.
• Adoptions are for two years and are renewable.
• Litter must be picked up at least two (2) times a year at least 30 days apart.  For each cleanup, a report must be submitted (cleanup reporting forms are provided upon approval of Adoption) to  DEP.AAH@wv.gov or by mail to:

Adopt A Highway
WVDEP - REAP
601 57th St. SE
Charleston, WV 25304

• Adopters must notify the Division of Highways county garage three days prior to each cleanup.
• All volunteers are required to watch the Adopt-A-Highway Safety Videos prior to picking up litter. (Please see the link provided below.)
• Safety vests furnished by the state must be worn by all volunteers during cleanups.
• “Litter Cleanup Ahead” signs must be posted during cleanups.
• Volunteers are encouraged to recycle items found on roadsides.

To learn more: https://dep.wv.gov/environmental-advocate/reap/aah/Pages/default.aspx
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Adopt-A-Spot Program: Adopt-A-Spot is an extension of the Adopt-A-Highway Program and allows volunteers to adopt smaller sections of state roadside rights-of-way for the purpose of keeping them litter free. One recognition sign bearing the adopters name will be posted on site after the first litter cleanup. All Adopt-A-Highway rules apply to Adopt-a-Spot, with the following exceptions:

• The adopted “Spot” may be no longer than ¼ mile in length.

• There is no age limit. However, the state may deny unsafe areas based on the age of the volunteers.

 Contact a member of the Adopt A Highway Program