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Selected Past events
June 2025
Oak Point Park
June 13
details and photos coming soon
Mustang Creek
June 14
details and photos coming soon
Rowlett Creek
June 28
details and photos coming soon
May 2025
Mustang Creek
May 10
details and photos coming soon
Adopt a Highway
May 25
details and photos coming soon
April 10, 2025
Hamilton Park Cleanup with Texas Instruments
April 10
Eleven volunteers from Texas Instruments removed 440 pounds of litter from Hamilton Park and the Cottonwood Creek Greenbelt. We were so thankful for wonderful weather after getting rained out a week earlier.
March 2025
Garland Greenbelt parks
Mar 15
Visited and briefly cleaned and fished at 3 Garland parks on a trip whose main objective was scouting for the March 29 event.
John Paul Jones Park with City of Garland
Mar 29
2100 pounds of trash removed from the shoreline of Lake Ray Hubbard. ACL attended this event, but it was organized by the City of Garland Parks and Recreation department, and they put on a excellent event!
Short video about it: https://youtube.com/shorts/6xertjiKfqc?feature=share
February 2025
Rocketship Park
Feb 8
57 pounds of trash removed from Rocketship Park and nearby trails.
Scavenger Hunt at Mustang Creek
Feb 15
78 pounds of trash removed from Mustang creek during a fun Bingo based Scavenger Hunt. Both teams got a blackout because we found everything!!
January 2025
Allen Resolution Walk
January 1
Record turnout! We cleaned about 20 miles of roadway in 3 teams of 3 over 3 hours.
Bluebonnet Trail Cleanup
Jan 25
In one of the many areas where water flows off of 75 and toward the creek, the place becomes filled with plastic and styrofoam. We removed almost 100 pound of litter, about half of the weight was in a 65 inch flatscreen TV.
December 2024
Scouting New Creeks
December
We made several trips out in December to scout new locations. We did some cleanup at some of them, but the main purpose was to determine locations appropriate to bring different groups to in the future. We found some places with enough trash to support a very large group cleanup. We might have to rent a trailer or a dumpster when we clean some of these places!
Cache In Trash Out
Dec 31
We participated in a Cache-In Trash-Out event at White Rock Lake. The participation was great, which was good, because so was the amount of trash. We found a few interesting items, like this skull.
November 2024
Mustang Creek
November 1
Clean creek bed equals filthy creek bed minus all the plastic!
Post Halloween Neighborhood Cleanup
November 1
Dozens of candy wrappers and water bottles and a few costume accessories... and an earbud and its charging case. The earbud was about 5 feet from the charging case. The second earbud could not be found... probably was in the ear of the person that dropped the rest.
Cleanup in the Woods
November 9 & 16
We found some woods with trails that are accessible from the Bluebonnet trail near Rowlett Creek and highway 75. We filled the pickup bed there on both Nov 9 and Nov 16.
October 2024
Mustang Creek
October 12
Fishing and detrashing the creek, as usual!
Purtis Creek State Park
October 15
Not an official ACL event, but we cleaned up our camp site and tried a little magnet fishing on the pier.
September 2024
Highway 75 Access Road
September 7
There is always tons of trash here. This would be a good spot for a future large group event!
Possum Kingdom Lake
September 21
I participated in the Hell's Gate underwater cleanup put on by Inland Diver's Association. It was a blast! It was quite an operation too! 28 divers, a bunch of surface support crew on 8 boats. I never saw the full pile of trash since I was underwater, but I heard we filled the trash barge! My buddy and I filled 9 onion sacks with trash from the bottom of the lake - mostly beer cans, but some plastic and glass, too.
Bethany Ridge Park
September 28
10 bags of trash removed from the shoreline. It's a pretty small pond, so you know it was a mess! Caught some bass and bluegill as well!
August 2024
Highway 75 Access Road
August 24
66 pounds... a pretty light day for this area of the access road, but it was hot. There is good shade in parts, but the shady areas are full of poison ivy.
July 2024
Lavon Park and Fish #1
July 27
Didn't stay long but picked up a few bags of trash and caught some small fish.
Mustang Creek
July 13
Took the kids and the kayaks and removed some trash we couldn't reach from the shore.
Videos coming soon.
Mustang Creek
July 6
We visited Mustang Creek four Saturdays in a row, which was a feat with our summer travel schedule. We removed multiple bags of litter on each trip.
June 2024
Highway 75 Access Road
June 1
Steve and I removed over 250 pounds of trash from the Northbound service road ditch just north of Legacy.
Mustang Creek
June 22
Fishing and picking up lots of trash at our favorite creek.
Full adventure:
Shorts:
https://youtube.com/shorts/IDlXixnjGHs?feature=share
May 2024
Giant Sycamore
May 27
Did you know there is a huge sycamore tree accessible by a lovely, mostly shaded, 9 mile hike right here in the metroplex. We hiked 4.5 miles to the tree, picked up about 15 pounds of trash around the tree, and packed it out the 4.5 miles back to the truck. Wanna go? Let me know!
April 2024
Highway 75 Access Road
April 13
Several bags of litter plus cleaning up some illegal dumping of a mattress, a sofa, and a truck tire all led to our biggest single load yet at 238 pounds.
https://youtube.com/shorts/bllfXGbqEkQ?feature=share
Mustang Creek
April 22
We really do find the strangest things. Caught fish and picked up 14.6 pounds of trash at one of our favorite spots.
https://youtube.com/shorts/QstuaIrYX1o?feature=share
Spring Creek Nature Area
April 27
We really do find the strangest things. Caught fish and picked up 14.6 pounds of trash at one of our favorite spots.
https://youtube.com/shorts/iI0icIgARn8?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/WsZBg7E59qA?feature=share
March 2024
Bluebonnet Trail
Mar 3
Selfie pulling a bike trailer loaded with trash after several of us cleaned up along Bluebonnet Trail where it crosses highway 75 between Allen and Plano.
Lake Lavon Park & Fish Cleanup
Mar 23
Three of us removed over 180 pounds of trash from this popular fishing area (and unfortunately popular illegal dumping area)
Rocketship Park in Allen
Mar 23
I spent a little time in a creek (more like a drainage ditch) next to Rocketship Park. Picked up a few bags of trash and did my first microfishing and caught a new best smallest fish ever.
February 2024
Adopt-a-Highway
Feb 24
Found the business end of a shovel along with other trash along the road during a quarterly Adopt-a-highway cleanup.
Juggling Trash at the Creek
Feb 25
Cleaning in our favorite place, Mustang Creek, and found lots of ballas as usual, so I had to juggle four of them.
January 2024
Resolution Walk
Jan 2
We picked up 30 pounds of trash on the second Annual "Resolution Walk" the morning of January 2.
Grossest find of the day: https://youtube.com/shorts/ycZGfSTFDE4?feature=share
Watters Creek
Jan 6
Big haul of 91 pounds of trash off the bike path between the creek and the shopping center near highway 75.
https://youtube.com/shorts/7s6ToPuuDiU?feature=share
Highway 75 Access Road
Jan 6
Biggest ever single event trash collection of 167 pounds from the area around Rowlett Creek and the northbound service road of highway 75 in Allen. This filled the bed of my truck and triggered an immediate trip to the transfer station.
short summary:
Even shorter summary: https://youtube.com/shorts/MY8kr-KHqls?feature=share
2022-2023 Events
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