MINNEAPOLIS — Organizers say hundreds of volunteers have collected about three tons of trash during a cleanup of Minnehaha Creek near the Twin Cities following heavy summer floods.

The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District said volunteers and park workers spent most of Sunday cleaning up and assessing damage along Hiawatha and Nokomisthe lakes and the creek, which branches off the Mississippi River. Flooding washed away improvements to the creek that the city of Minneapolis made four years ago.

The watershed district director said it’s in the process of reporting damages to federal agencies for aid. The flooding is projected to have caused millions of dollars in damage.

It also delayed the cleanup effort, which was rescheduled twice from its original June date due to high water levels.