Bring your boots and gloves because Mother Nature has played dirty with the homeless camp beneath the Queen City Bridge in Gainesville.

Jerry Deyton, pastor of The Way ministry, is calling on volunteers to join him at 10 a.m. Friday in cleaning up the camp now that the floodwaters are gone.

Workers from the state Department of Transportation slogged through the swamped camp this week, digging out a clogged drain and replacing it with new piping.

Water typically flows through a drain where the camp abuts the property line of a poultry plant, then over a mound and down into a ditch.

But recent heavy rains overwhelmed the drainage infrastructure, backing up an estimated 100,000 gallons of water or more last week.

The flooding destroyed couches, mattresses, tents and personal belongings, and washed litter every which way.

Donations of canned food, water, clothes and shoes are welcome.