Sunday, July 18, 2004
New River clean up July 17, 2004
Brian Wheat of The New River Foundation organized this most successful clean up of 11.5 miles of the New River north of Jacksonville. We must have had 3o participants.
We met at the Marina Cafe on Route 17 at the bridge over the New River. We put in the river 11.5 miles upstream at the new McAllister Landing on Rhodestown Road. This is a very long stretch of river to paddle and clean up too. They not only picked up all trash but also cut out blown down trees blocking the river.
Two very active participants who were in and out of the water picking up all kinds of trach and removing the cut sections of blown down trees.
Lisa Stotesbury, Administrator of Keep Onlsow Beautiful and Grant Hill, Professor at Carolina Commuity College who also participated in the clean up.
Unamed beautiful wildflower. The pickerel wild flower was also blooming and Queen Annes Lace.
The trashman being towed home by Bob Quinn. He had stopped to talk to Tom Pallard at his beautiful home along the river. Tom told me about his new treatment plant under construction.
Some of the people and some of the trash at the Marina Cafe ramp.
More people.
Putting up the canoes.
It was a great day on the river. This section of the New is declared to be clean. Big Sweep will not have to revisit here. Please everybody do not continue to trash this beautiful river. We think the upstream bridges at Rhodestown and Northwest and up Squires Run are where the trash is being discarded into this river. What is thrown out on our roads in the watershed also gets washed into the river with heavy rains. We all must stop littering.
Thank you one and all for your participation. We especially want to thank Bob Leclair who came from Kinston with his Jon boat to carry our trash. His wife came with him and his daughter Michele, came with her own kayak. Joanne Somerday also came down from Kinston, and Matt and Jamie Haynes from Newport and Marie Justen from Spooners Creek.
Brian Wheat will tell you about all the others. Our thanks again, to Brian and The New River Foundation for making this trip possible and so successful in restoring The New River to its natural gorgeous beauty around every bend in the river.
We all are determined to clean the New all the way to the ocean. We especially need motorboats to help us on these wide open waters. Elmer
We met at the Marina Cafe on Route 17 at the bridge over the New River. We put in the river 11.5 miles upstream at the new McAllister Landing on Rhodestown Road. This is a very long stretch of river to paddle and clean up too. They not only picked up all trash but also cut out blown down trees blocking the river.
Two very active participants who were in and out of the water picking up all kinds of trach and removing the cut sections of blown down trees.
Lisa Stotesbury, Administrator of Keep Onlsow Beautiful and Grant Hill, Professor at Carolina Commuity College who also participated in the clean up.
Unamed beautiful wildflower. The pickerel wild flower was also blooming and Queen Annes Lace.
The trashman being towed home by Bob Quinn. He had stopped to talk to Tom Pallard at his beautiful home along the river. Tom told me about his new treatment plant under construction.
Some of the people and some of the trash at the Marina Cafe ramp.
More people.
Putting up the canoes.
It was a great day on the river. This section of the New is declared to be clean. Big Sweep will not have to revisit here. Please everybody do not continue to trash this beautiful river. We think the upstream bridges at Rhodestown and Northwest and up Squires Run are where the trash is being discarded into this river. What is thrown out on our roads in the watershed also gets washed into the river with heavy rains. We all must stop littering.
Thank you one and all for your participation. We especially want to thank Bob Leclair who came from Kinston with his Jon boat to carry our trash. His wife came with him and his daughter Michele, came with her own kayak. Joanne Somerday also came down from Kinston, and Matt and Jamie Haynes from Newport and Marie Justen from Spooners Creek.
Brian Wheat will tell you about all the others. Our thanks again, to Brian and The New River Foundation for making this trip possible and so successful in restoring The New River to its natural gorgeous beauty around every bend in the river.
We all are determined to clean the New all the way to the ocean. We especially need motorboats to help us on these wide open waters. Elmer
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