Friday, May 13, 2005
2005-05-14,White Oak River clean up, roads and waters this Saturday
This Saturday, National Clean Up, White Oak River Watershed
Come one come all. From 9:00 to 12:00 this Saturday. Picnic at Boondocks at Stella at 12:00 after clean up.
Where: Any road in the White Oak Watershed and/or any body of water, the river itself, tributaries, the ICW. Get the litter out where ever it is!
Canoes, kayaks and motor boats, all are welcome.
Bags (PLEASE USE YOUR OWN TOO) etc can be obtained at Wildlife Ramp on 24 at Cedar Point or at Boondocks at Stella, NC. Next to the post office. Or at 9:00 AM, at The White Oak Family Camp Ground on Route 17 at Maysville. This location is for the clean up of the White Oak River Roads in both Onslow County and Jones County. You folks who live on these roads, please help them. Members of the Izaak Walton League will be there to lead this cleanup. The Izaak Walton League is also managing the picnic and Scott Grafton and Capt Ed, his DAD, are cooking the pig and providing their beautiful site for the picnic on our lovely White Oak at Stella.
Canoes and kayaks can put-in there or at Long Point in Croatan Forest. Motor boats too at Haywood Landing.
Elmer Eddy, The White Oak River Trashman will be at Boondocks from 8:30 on to assist all.
All Stewards are invited if you are not cleaning up in your own area. We have a whole pig for everybody afterwards at 12:00 at Boondocks courtesy of The Rotary Club of Swansboro.
This is by the public and for the public for a litter free White Oak area, both roads and water. You can leave the bags on the shoulder of the roads. Call us and we will have them picked up.
Sponsors and participating groups are: The Young Marines of Swansboro, The Rotary Club of Maysville, (They have already cleaned up the entire Gibson Bridge Road on Wednesday), (Residents on Emmett Lane Bridge Road are cleaning it.) The Izaak Walton League, Keep Onslow Beautiful and Stewards of The White Oak River Basin.
This is the day for all residents who live on the feeder roads to the subdivisions and in the subdivisions to clean up these roads along The White Oak. If you want to sign up with NCDOT to keep your road clean year round, four times a year, we will help you do that.
Our common goal: If no one litters there will be no litter. Let’s clean it up and then keep it that way.
Then no clean ups would be necessary and we could help in restoring oysters all over our waters. This would be something productive instead of perpetually picking up up other's careless discards. We would much rather be doing that than picking up trash forever and ever.
If you haven't contacted your Represenative about House Bill 1125, this will have "Iwill not litter" on every license. Please do so at once. This will get litterers where it hurts. Your Representative needs to know you want this bill to pass and become law. It will die in Committee if you do not do this, we will have to live with litter as it is today forever. Elmer
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Elmer, The White Oak River Trashman,
Stewards of the White Oak River Basin
Please visit: http://www.whiteoakstewards.org/ 910-389-4588--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Come one come all. From 9:00 to 12:00 this Saturday. Picnic at Boondocks at Stella at 12:00 after clean up.
Where: Any road in the White Oak Watershed and/or any body of water, the river itself, tributaries, the ICW. Get the litter out where ever it is!
Canoes, kayaks and motor boats, all are welcome.
Bags (PLEASE USE YOUR OWN TOO) etc can be obtained at Wildlife Ramp on 24 at Cedar Point or at Boondocks at Stella, NC. Next to the post office. Or at 9:00 AM, at The White Oak Family Camp Ground on Route 17 at Maysville. This location is for the clean up of the White Oak River Roads in both Onslow County and Jones County. You folks who live on these roads, please help them. Members of the Izaak Walton League will be there to lead this cleanup. The Izaak Walton League is also managing the picnic and Scott Grafton and Capt Ed, his DAD, are cooking the pig and providing their beautiful site for the picnic on our lovely White Oak at Stella.
Canoes and kayaks can put-in there or at Long Point in Croatan Forest. Motor boats too at Haywood Landing.
Elmer Eddy, The White Oak River Trashman will be at Boondocks from 8:30 on to assist all.
All Stewards are invited if you are not cleaning up in your own area. We have a whole pig for everybody afterwards at 12:00 at Boondocks courtesy of The Rotary Club of Swansboro.
This is by the public and for the public for a litter free White Oak area, both roads and water. You can leave the bags on the shoulder of the roads. Call us and we will have them picked up.
Sponsors and participating groups are: The Young Marines of Swansboro, The Rotary Club of Maysville, (They have already cleaned up the entire Gibson Bridge Road on Wednesday), (Residents on Emmett Lane Bridge Road are cleaning it.) The Izaak Walton League, Keep Onslow Beautiful and Stewards of The White Oak River Basin.
This is the day for all residents who live on the feeder roads to the subdivisions and in the subdivisions to clean up these roads along The White Oak. If you want to sign up with NCDOT to keep your road clean year round, four times a year, we will help you do that.
Our common goal: If no one litters there will be no litter. Let’s clean it up and then keep it that way.
Then no clean ups would be necessary and we could help in restoring oysters all over our waters. This would be something productive instead of perpetually picking up up other's careless discards. We would much rather be doing that than picking up trash forever and ever.
If you haven't contacted your Represenative about House Bill 1125, this will have "Iwill not litter" on every license. Please do so at once. This will get litterers where it hurts. Your Representative needs to know you want this bill to pass and become law. It will die in Committee if you do not do this, we will have to live with litter as it is today forever. Elmer
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Elmer, The White Oak River Trashman,
Stewards of the White Oak River Basin
Please visit: http://www.whiteoakstewards.org/ 910-389-4588--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thursday, May 12, 2005
2005-05-10, Southwest Creek
2005-05-10, Paddling Southwest Creek
We left a shuttle vehicle at Rte 17 south of Jacksonville at the bridge over Southwest Creek. We put-in at the bridge on Route 53 west of Jacksonville. Put-in time was about 9:30 and take out about 3:30.
We picked up a bag of trash right there at the put-in. This is par for the course.
The water was high and we had a good strong flow. Almost immediately we came upon strainers consisting of blown down trees with floating logs and other debris piled up against them.
We also found three beaver dams which we opened up by removing sticks at the lowest point to create a flow through them through which we could pass. These dams were between one a two feet high.
We also encountered heavy, dense growth of a noxious weed which will soon completely block the river in this first section down to Haws Run Bridge.
Heavy trash appeared after the Haws Run Bridge. People are throwing their trash off this bridge. We must find a way to stop this practice.
The weeds disappeared after this bridge but the strainers and blown down trees were numerous and continued most of the way to route 17. So much so that we do not recommend paddling this section until they are removed. We cut with a chain saw and worked our way through these strainers but they will be quickly blocked again.
Onslow County has removed these blockages for mosquito control in the past. We hope they will do so again soon as this is a lovely river very close to Jacksonville and should and could be kept open with very little expense.
Four deer were seen. Two were about 20 feet in front of us as they crossed the river. A mother duck played being wounded to lead us away from her brood who scattered all over the river ahead of us.
We hope this beautiful river can soon become a permanent Canoe Trail for all to enjoy.
We left it clean of all man made litter. The picture is of a typical strainer, debris and litter and blown down trees.
Today’s participants were Tom Fineco from New Bern, Al Morris from Smyrna, Dale Weston from Jacksonville and Elmer Eddy from Swansboro.
We left a shuttle vehicle at Rte 17 south of Jacksonville at the bridge over Southwest Creek. We put-in at the bridge on Route 53 west of Jacksonville. Put-in time was about 9:30 and take out about 3:30.
We picked up a bag of trash right there at the put-in. This is par for the course.
The water was high and we had a good strong flow. Almost immediately we came upon strainers consisting of blown down trees with floating logs and other debris piled up against them.
We also found three beaver dams which we opened up by removing sticks at the lowest point to create a flow through them through which we could pass. These dams were between one a two feet high.
We also encountered heavy, dense growth of a noxious weed which will soon completely block the river in this first section down to Haws Run Bridge.
Heavy trash appeared after the Haws Run Bridge. People are throwing their trash off this bridge. We must find a way to stop this practice.
The weeds disappeared after this bridge but the strainers and blown down trees were numerous and continued most of the way to route 17. So much so that we do not recommend paddling this section until they are removed. We cut with a chain saw and worked our way through these strainers but they will be quickly blocked again.
Onslow County has removed these blockages for mosquito control in the past. We hope they will do so again soon as this is a lovely river very close to Jacksonville and should and could be kept open with very little expense.
Four deer were seen. Two were about 20 feet in front of us as they crossed the river. A mother duck played being wounded to lead us away from her brood who scattered all over the river ahead of us.
We hope this beautiful river can soon become a permanent Canoe Trail for all to enjoy.
We left it clean of all man made litter. The picture is of a typical strainer, debris and litter and blown down trees.
Today’s participants were Tom Fineco from New Bern, Al Morris from Smyrna, Dale Weston from Jacksonville and Elmer Eddy from Swansboro.
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