Printable Forms

• Application Form
• First Cleanup and Sign Order Form
• Name Change on Recognition Sign Form
• Change Route Request Form
• Replacement Sign Request Form
• Adopt-A-Spot Application Form
• Adopt-A-Highway / Adopt-A-Spot Cleanup Report Card

Submit completed forms to: 

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

Completed forms may also be emailed to DEP.AAH@wv.gov 

Adopt-A-Highway

• 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.
• 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.

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. 

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