Powers' Port Cleanup Oct. 20th
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Dr. Steve Yaney
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Powers' Port Cleanup Oct. 20th
As part of the Fort Smith citywide cleanup, the River Valley Chapter is spearheading cleaning up around our new canoe access for the Arkansas River...Powers' Port. Our new sign should be up by then and we can check it out...it is a canoe on a pole with vinyl lettering. The sign should be very visible from Clayton Expressway, but is located about 2.8 miled from either downton or Midland Avenue. You may paddle and clean around the shoreline, or bike and clean along the chat bike trail, or just clean around the parking area. Pleny of trash in all areas. I'll be there around 8:30 after picking up gloves and bags and will be done by 11:00 to turn trash in at MLK park then hot dogs etc
Re: Powers' Port Cleanup Oct. 20th
I'll be there with my canoe. May bring my bike to clean the bike trail too.
See you around 8:30.
Rob
See you around 8:30.
Rob
Re: Powers' Port Cleanup Oct. 20th
We had no shortage of trash at the cleanup. Found a toilet, 349 beer bottles, bunches of large sheets of broken glass (especially fun to pick up), dirty diapers, porno, a recliner, and much more. It's looking good and clean now...
The cleanup crew.
More broken glass.
Max and Millhouse going for a cruise.
The cleanup crew.
More broken glass.
Max and Millhouse going for a cruise.
Re: Powers' Port Cleanup Oct. 20th
NICE job y'all!
"The challenge goes on. There are other lands and rivers, other wilderness areas, to save and to share with all. I challenge you to step forward to protect and care for the wild places you love best"
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Re: Powers' Port Cleanup Oct. 20th
Thank you very much. I understand about how hard the glass is to pick up. Mary and I both carry large coffee cans with us just to carry out broken glass and have had to break out the plastic bags several times when the cans were not enough. Hope you did not get cut up. Glass is one of our pet peeves. Even wearing gloves, I get cut several times a year.
As Beaver lake goes down, we keep finding things that were not visible at higher levels. Mary and I keep hauling off bags of trash on our sea kayak and canoe trips, but it is a target rich environment. I called in a dump spot of over 60 tires to the Corps of Engineers today on the north side of Bear island, north of HW 12 bridge on Beaver Lake that Mary found and showed me Saturday. I will keep calling back until I find out what is going to be done about it. Alan Bland, the head ranger, who was out of the office when I called, has told me in the past that I could place any tires I found on the islands or in the lake on the sidewalk in front of his office and that he would see that they were handled from there, but somehow, I do not think he wants 60+ tires there. Getting that many tires pulled out of the mud and hauled back to the bridge would be a few days work for me and a few truck loads,IF my shoulder was up to it. I plan to go back to take pictures to give to the papers about the dumping if there is not a good reason for the tires being there. Sure could use some help, but I will do it on my own and with Mary if nothing else turns up. Mary and I have hauled out 38 tires so far this year from the Buffalo and Beaver Lake and I have 4 more located in the cove here at Monte Ne that I will get on my own.
It does give us pleasure to go paddle and NOT see any trash where we know there used to be a lot of trash. Beaver lake is a really pretty place to paddle and it has so many different views of it's hundred of miles of shoreline.
Eric Esche
Wish they would get those 2 abandoned fiberlgass wreckages I reported to the Corps near the Hatchery south of HW 12 and the Restricted area bouyes that are washed up that I have also reported. Somehow they never get picked up on the lake clean ups.
Eric Esche
As Beaver lake goes down, we keep finding things that were not visible at higher levels. Mary and I keep hauling off bags of trash on our sea kayak and canoe trips, but it is a target rich environment. I called in a dump spot of over 60 tires to the Corps of Engineers today on the north side of Bear island, north of HW 12 bridge on Beaver Lake that Mary found and showed me Saturday. I will keep calling back until I find out what is going to be done about it. Alan Bland, the head ranger, who was out of the office when I called, has told me in the past that I could place any tires I found on the islands or in the lake on the sidewalk in front of his office and that he would see that they were handled from there, but somehow, I do not think he wants 60+ tires there. Getting that many tires pulled out of the mud and hauled back to the bridge would be a few days work for me and a few truck loads,IF my shoulder was up to it. I plan to go back to take pictures to give to the papers about the dumping if there is not a good reason for the tires being there. Sure could use some help, but I will do it on my own and with Mary if nothing else turns up. Mary and I have hauled out 38 tires so far this year from the Buffalo and Beaver Lake and I have 4 more located in the cove here at Monte Ne that I will get on my own.
It does give us pleasure to go paddle and NOT see any trash where we know there used to be a lot of trash. Beaver lake is a really pretty place to paddle and it has so many different views of it's hundred of miles of shoreline.
Eric Esche
Wish they would get those 2 abandoned fiberlgass wreckages I reported to the Corps near the Hatchery south of HW 12 and the Restricted area bouyes that are washed up that I have also reported. Somehow they never get picked up on the lake clean ups.
Eric Esche
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