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Potomac
River Clean Up
Saturday April 5, 2008
9am-12noon rain or shine
The Potomac River cleanup is this Saturday, April
5 from 9am until
noon, rain or shine. Please meet at 9 am at Lock 5 to help out.
Everyone must sign a waiver to cleanup on Park Service
Land. So if you are a teen, under18 years of age, please contact
me before Sat. to get a copy of the waiver for your parents/ guardian
to sign so that you can bring this with you, thanks.
You cannot participate without a signed
waiver.
Jennifer Hearn
301 229 4304
This Potomac Watershed Cleanup is part of a much
larger volunteer effort is being coordinated through the Alice Ferguson
Foundation http://www.hardbargainfarm.org/trash_initiative/trash_cleanup.html
and supported by the Potomac Conservancy, the National Park Service,
Potomac Riverkeeper, etc., and volunteers like you!
We still need a couple canoes to reach/ collect
trash along the Feeder Canal, especially at the very bottom near
Lock 5.
Our Potomac River clean up efforts will be focused
along the Feeder Canal, from the top of the Feeder Canal, and between
the C&O Canal Tow Path from Lock 5 to Lock 6. If time permits,
we'll also pick up trash between the C&O Canal and Potomac R.
up to the Little Falls pumping station at the Brookmont dam.
Students will be eligible for community service
hours provided you report to Jennifer when you arrive, and when
you depart on Saturday.
This event is open to people of all ages, and children
must be supervised by an adult at all times. Water and land clean
up will occur. Canoes and kayaks are welcome for trash collection,
especially at the bottom of the Feeder Canal were lots accumulates
post flooding. Volunteers will get dirty, and should wear sturdy
shoes and work gloves if possible.
We'll have orange trash bags. We will be recycling
clean (not filled with muck/ mud): glass bottles, #1 & #2 plastic
bottles with necks, and aluminum cans in blue bags. The filled orange
trash bags and bulky items will be placed along the C&O Tow
path edge, between the path and river, out of the way of path users
so the trash may be collected by the Park Service. Please do not
collect large Blue Barrels -- the one at the bottom of the Feeder
has already been reported.
Hope to see you there!
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