Friday, March 10, 2006
2006-03-08, Half Moon Creek
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The participants were Julia Miner of Araphoe, Dale Weston of Jacksonville and Elmer Eddy of Swansboro.
Copy of this report is being sent to The Editors of The Daily News, The Tideland News, The Carteret News Times, The Jones Post and The Gam under the title, "Hate Litter? Here is your chance to stop it", as this same situation exists on many of our streams throughout the entire area.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation, Adopt-A-Highway, annual Spring Litter Sweep road side cleanup is April 17-30.
Governor Easley has issued a proclomation naming April 17 - 30, 2006, LITTER SWEEP time in North Carolina.
Keep Onslow Beautiful and Keep America Beautiful are sponsoring The Great American Cleanup which is on going now from March 1 through May 31. Please consider volunteering now. (Swansboro High School Students will be cleaning up Swansboro Harbor on April 29. Participating students will get SAT credit).
Among the National Sponsors for the Great American Cleanup are Pepsi, Scotts Miracle Gro, Sparkle-Georgia-Pacific, Firestone, Honda, Wrigley, Sams, Glad, Force Flex-Troy Bilt, Waste Management, Rubber Manufacturers Association.
These one time clean ups are great but they are not the answer to this problem. We must stop littering at the source. The source is the Amercan Public who continue to litter indiscriminately.
Onslow County Commissioners issued a Resolution to have laws passed last year to accomplish this. Representative Robert Grady introduced these proposed laws. They never came out of The Transportation Committee due to lack of public support.
We are asking Representative Grady to introduce these bills again slightly modified to improve chances of passage. When this happens we hope the public will respond to assure passage.
Unless you the public do this we will forever live, swim, fish, hunt, hike and drive with litter everywhere.
You, the public, must stop littering! "If no one litters, there will be no litter". It is that easy. Law enforcement will get those who continue to litter.
Please join and help all of the above efforts to make them an outstanding success this year.
The following is an example of what you might find anywhere if you attempt to canoe or kayak down one of our rivers.
2006-03-08, Half Moon Creek paddle trip reoort. An aborted paddle adventure.
This is the saddest report we have ever had to write up on any trip. The trash was thick along Ramsey Road at the river and the power line. We could not get it all. This is the personal free disposal area of some people who regularly travel Ramsey Road. By allowing this to continue we are in reality paying these folks to dump here. It costs them nothng to do this, whereas the rest of us are paying to dispose of our trash.
The cost and effort to then have to remove it from the shoulders of Ramsey Road and also clean it out ot the river and off the river banks is stupendous and very difficult. Stewards of The White Oak River Basin will not do this anymore on Half Moon Creek above Gum Branch Road. We will leave this up to Onlsow County.
But this is not why we had to abort the trip. After hours of cutting through blown down trees we found ourselves just a short distance below the bend in the power line. The one picture is indicative of what we encountered. We realized we would never make it to Gum Branch Road where we had left our shuttle vehicles.
We dragged our boats through the woods to the power line and back up the power line to the road. We got everything out about 3:30 and then drove to the shuttle on Gum Branch Road to retrieve our vehicles and returned for our boats on Ramsey Road. .
We Stewards also will not do this again on this section of Half Moon Creek. We will have to leave this to the County too. We paddle for fun and believe it, this was no fun!.
With these blown down trees blocking the river canoeing and kayaking is impossible. Half Moon Creek could be and should be an excellent open Canoe Trail for all of us and our visiting tourists to enjoy. In other words. it should be a very usable attractive asset intead of an open, ugly sewer dammed up with fallen logs of tree trunks acting as strainers collecting all the trash thrown off the bridge at Ramsey Road.
Also, a clean open free flowing river would assist in flood control and reduction of the mosquitoe population and help in eradicating noxious weeds.
And think of how pretty our country side would be without trash everywhere. Please volunteer to help this year whereever you are. Elmer
Elmer, The White Oak River TrashmanStewards of the White Oak River BasinPlease visit: http://www.whiteoakstewards.org/Cell Phone 910-389-4588'If no one litters, there will be no litter"
The participants were Julia Miner of Araphoe, Dale Weston of Jacksonville and Elmer Eddy of Swansboro.
Copy of this report is being sent to The Editors of The Daily News, The Tideland News, The Carteret News Times, The Jones Post and The Gam under the title, "Hate Litter? Here is your chance to stop it", as this same situation exists on many of our streams throughout the entire area.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation, Adopt-A-Highway, annual Spring Litter Sweep road side cleanup is April 17-30.
Governor Easley has issued a proclomation naming April 17 - 30, 2006, LITTER SWEEP time in North Carolina.
Keep Onslow Beautiful and Keep America Beautiful are sponsoring The Great American Cleanup which is on going now from March 1 through May 31. Please consider volunteering now. (Swansboro High School Students will be cleaning up Swansboro Harbor on April 29. Participating students will get SAT credit).
Among the National Sponsors for the Great American Cleanup are Pepsi, Scotts Miracle Gro, Sparkle-Georgia-Pacific, Firestone, Honda, Wrigley, Sams, Glad, Force Flex-Troy Bilt, Waste Management, Rubber Manufacturers Association.
These one time clean ups are great but they are not the answer to this problem. We must stop littering at the source. The source is the Amercan Public who continue to litter indiscriminately.
Onslow County Commissioners issued a Resolution to have laws passed last year to accomplish this. Representative Robert Grady introduced these proposed laws. They never came out of The Transportation Committee due to lack of public support.
We are asking Representative Grady to introduce these bills again slightly modified to improve chances of passage. When this happens we hope the public will respond to assure passage.
Unless you the public do this we will forever live, swim, fish, hunt, hike and drive with litter everywhere.
You, the public, must stop littering! "If no one litters, there will be no litter". It is that easy. Law enforcement will get those who continue to litter.
Please join and help all of the above efforts to make them an outstanding success this year.
The following is an example of what you might find anywhere if you attempt to canoe or kayak down one of our rivers.
2006-03-08, Half Moon Creek paddle trip reoort. An aborted paddle adventure.
This is the saddest report we have ever had to write up on any trip. The trash was thick along Ramsey Road at the river and the power line. We could not get it all. This is the personal free disposal area of some people who regularly travel Ramsey Road. By allowing this to continue we are in reality paying these folks to dump here. It costs them nothng to do this, whereas the rest of us are paying to dispose of our trash.
The cost and effort to then have to remove it from the shoulders of Ramsey Road and also clean it out ot the river and off the river banks is stupendous and very difficult. Stewards of The White Oak River Basin will not do this anymore on Half Moon Creek above Gum Branch Road. We will leave this up to Onlsow County.
But this is not why we had to abort the trip. After hours of cutting through blown down trees we found ourselves just a short distance below the bend in the power line. The one picture is indicative of what we encountered. We realized we would never make it to Gum Branch Road where we had left our shuttle vehicles.
We dragged our boats through the woods to the power line and back up the power line to the road. We got everything out about 3:30 and then drove to the shuttle on Gum Branch Road to retrieve our vehicles and returned for our boats on Ramsey Road. .
We Stewards also will not do this again on this section of Half Moon Creek. We will have to leave this to the County too. We paddle for fun and believe it, this was no fun!.
With these blown down trees blocking the river canoeing and kayaking is impossible. Half Moon Creek could be and should be an excellent open Canoe Trail for all of us and our visiting tourists to enjoy. In other words. it should be a very usable attractive asset intead of an open, ugly sewer dammed up with fallen logs of tree trunks acting as strainers collecting all the trash thrown off the bridge at Ramsey Road.
Also, a clean open free flowing river would assist in flood control and reduction of the mosquitoe population and help in eradicating noxious weeds.
And think of how pretty our country side would be without trash everywhere. Please volunteer to help this year whereever you are. Elmer
Elmer, The White Oak River TrashmanStewards of the White Oak River BasinPlease visit: http://www.whiteoakstewards.org/Cell Phone 910-389-4588'If no one litters, there will be no litter"
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