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Clean creek bed equals filthy creek bed minus all the plastic!
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.
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.
Fishing and detrashing the creek, as usual!
Not an official ACL event, but we cleaned up our camp site and tried a little magnet fishing on the pier.
There is always tons of trash here. This would be a good spot for a future large group event!
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.
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!
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.
Didn't stay long but picked up a few bags of trash and caught some small fish.
Took the kids and the kayaks and removed some trash we couldn't reach from the shore.
Videos coming soon.
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.
Steve and I removed over 250 pounds of trash from the Northbound service road ditch just north of Legacy.
Fishing and picking up lots of trash at our favorite creek.
Full adventure:
Shorts:
https://youtube.com/shorts/IDlXixnjGHs?feature=share
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!
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
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
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
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.
Three of us removed over 180 pounds of trash from this popular fishing area (and unfortunately popular illegal dumping area)
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.
Found the business end of a shovel along with other trash along the road during a quarterly Adopt-a-highway cleanup.
Cleaning in our favorite place, Mustang Creek, and found lots of ballas as usual, so I had to juggle four of them.
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
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
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
Picked up a queen size mattress from the side of the road and hauled it to the transfer station.
Withheld details until publishing this: https://youtube.com/shorts/WFR83zaxa40?feature=share
Cleaned along a few miles of the bike path and creek. Found lots of Styrofoam and a few of these mystery necklaces: https://youtube.com/shorts/ysqCVW8_tcQ?feature=share
Similar to the Russell Creek event, but at Watters Creek behind the Watters Creek Village shopping area. Filled the new gorilla cart. I wouldn't have been able to do this much with the old plastic wagon.
Fishing and cleaning like usual.
One interesting catch: https://youtube.com/shorts/d6ZZsokgCvs?feature=share
Removing candy wrappers from the neighborhood a few days after Halloween.
Just a tiny bit of fishing and then almost two hours of getting after it with two people and we had about 33 bags worth of litter. One of our biggest hauls ever!
Check out the doggy helping us clean the creek: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/td3hB17dLNw
Kayak and cleanup at Eastvale Park in the Colony on Lewisville Lake
10 bags of trash across 3 different Allen Park ponds. A few Youtube shorts about it:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7ProN_o7Qy0
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dXMzp4TggtI
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FYhaO0RBTFM
I did a couple hours of fishing and cleanup, loving that the temp was below 80. A two minute summary is here:
I spent a few hours cleaning the Trinity River with the Dallas Downriver Club. We got in and out at McInnish Park in Carrollton. There were about a dozen boats and we removed a lot of trash from the river.
Six volunteers cleaned County Road 1006 just outside the park, removing 49 pounds of litter (20 bags plus a few large items). Then a couple of us road the mountain biking trail. It was a great event and I'm sure we will do it again!
We cleaned up and fished at Erwin Park and Al Ruschhaupt Park in McKinney. I had a little fun with this find: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MLY9xMv_VZk
Two video summaries to choose from:
20 second short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UT59IW7URGM
or about 3 minute version with more details:
We cleaned up the parking lots a bit the morning after graduation. Found 3 different airpods that had been lost and run over. Removed 8 bags of litter in total.
We cleaned up 3 days in a row over Memorial Day Weekend. We worked at Bethany Ridge Park and North Bethany Lake Estates park on May 28 and at Bethany Lakes Park on May 29. See part of the May 28 event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T56gMkD20wk
We cleaned up the bank fishing area and some of the parking area at this popular and heavily littered fishing site.
We did some cycling and cleanup along the greenbelt between the Greenbelt Corridor Park and the Ray Roberts Trailhead. The trail itself was pretty clean, so we spent some time picking up on the riverbank at the trailhead and roadside on FM 455 near the Ray Roberts Dam.
Lila, Wyatt, and I covered our adopted section of Bethany on Saturday afternoon. We collected 8 grocery bags of litter plus a bunch of large items like cardboard boxes, boards, tire pieces, etc.
We set out from the boat ramp at Twin Groves Park and headed for the nearest creek. It was very narrow and lined with trees making it difficult to pass through in some places. The weather was great and we collected 5 bags of litter from the creek and shoreline.
We enjoyed a great day of paddling and removed 15 bags of litter from the creek. We tied the bags to ropes and pulled them around like fish on stringers. It worked reasonably well, though the bags were waterlogged by the end.
19 bags of litter collected over 7.1 miles of roadways on the east side of Allen. We hit 5 city parks in the loop where we could get rid of the trash we had collected by putting it in public trash cans. It was a big success and good training for future hikes. Watch for a west Allen park loop event coming soon.
This is a place we could take dozens of volunteers to! There is so much trash. But I did a little surveying for future events and removed over 30 pounds of litter.
A micro-adventure kayaking through a cove and up a creek, collecting trash from the water and the shore. We found some interesting things. Watch the summary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAuu4jX3xxQ
9 pounds / 7 bags of trash removed from around Mustang Creek on Dec 2, 2022
13 pounds / 11 bags of trash removed from around Mustang Creek on Dec 11, 2022
29 pounds removed from this section of the roadway, including 10 pounds of iron pieces for recycling
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