Untouched Floodplain since 1993 Clean-up 2-15-14
A few of us River Relief’ers found ourselves in the Meramec Bottoms on February 15th of this year. Even though there was still a little snow on the ground, and temperatures would barely reach above freezing, no way the “211” was backing off or canceling this event. What intrigued me most was the “untouched floodplain” part of the clean-up. Whereas I am usually driving volunteers around on the Big Muddy in a boat, and picking up tons of “single-use” plastic bottles, this was a chance for me to romp around the woods, finding unique and very old treasures for River Relief’s future “Trash Museum”. Finding treasures is actually one of the best things about picking up trash.
This 2-day clean-up turned out to be a huge success, with a one 40 cubic yard dumpster crammed full of trash, plus many plastic and metal 55-gallon drums kept out of the trash dumpster. Now, for the tires, Stream Team 211 filled one dumpster with 27 passenger tires, 12 tractor trailer tires, 255 tires with rims and a whole pile of tires that still need to be loaded up in trailers on Monday. Just incredible!
Photo by Melanie Cheney
Untouched Floodplain since 1993 Clean-up 2-15-14
A few of us River Relief’ers found ourselves in the Meramec Bottoms on February 15th of this year. Even though there was still a little snow on the ground, and temperatures would barely reach above freezing, no way the “211” was backing off or canceling this event. What intrigued me most was the “untouched floodplain” part of the clean-up. Whereas I am usually driving volunteers around on the Big Muddy in a boat, and picking up tons of “single-use” plastic bottles, this was a chance for me to romp around the woods, finding unique and very old treasures for River Relief’s future “Trash Museum”. Finding treasures is actually one of the best things about picking up trash.
This 2-day clean-up turned out to be a huge success, with a one 40 cubic yard dumpster crammed full of trash, plus many plastic and metal 55-gallon drums kept out of the trash dumpster. Now, for the tires, Stream Team 211 filled one dumpster with 27 passenger tires, 12 tractor trailer tires, 255 tires with rims and a whole pile of tires that still need to be loaded up in trailers on Monday. Just incredible!
Photo by Melanie Cheney