2009 California Coastal Cleanup
Day:
The 25th
Annual Cleanup Day had a great turn out
On Saturday, September 19th, 2009
from
9AM to Noon 100
volunteers removed debris
from
a 3 mile section along the Yuba River and
debris from the Thorntree area
along the Feather River. Fish & Game also collected
debris in the Jack Slough area.
None of this would
have been possible without the following:
Marysville High school
students, the Camp Singer volunteers, as well as the
individuals that came out to help.
Save Mart for furnishing water and
snacks for the volunteers.
YSDI for furnishing the
dumpsters and for dumping them free of charge.
Yuba County Environmental Health
who coordinated the effort with help from the
Marysville Police Department. The City of Marysville
provided a dump truck and backhoe, Yuba County Public
Works provided two dump trucks, port-a- potties and a
backhoe, the Department of Water Resources provided ATV’s,
the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department also helped with
providing additional patrols of the area and Michael Paul
(local contractor) donated his time operating a
mini-excavator.
And after 3 hours of
cleanup we raffled off numerous prizes.
The raffle donors include:
Wal-Mart, Burger King, Casa Carlos, Starbucks, Hometown
Buffet, Chili’s, D-Street Salon, Mountain Mike’s Pizza,
Silver Dollar Saloon, Teriyaki House, Pizza Roundup, Dragon
Inn, Red Robin, Elliot Photo, Round Table Pizza, Cinemark
Movies 8 and Ernesto Arteaga (private Citizen).
We very much
appreciate all of your help. Your commitment to helping our community
is making it a
better place.
Total gathered: 42,800 lbs. of illegally dumped
debris!
That
is an average of 428 pounds
per volunteer
Way to
go!
Want to get involved in a
Citizens Watch Group?
Want to report illegal dumping?
Contact Kathy Gregg with the Yuba County
Public Works Department
at
kgregg@co.yuba.ca.us or (530)749-5420
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Question:
Why are we participating in the Coastal
Cleanup Day when we are not located on the coast?
Answer:
Past Coastal Cleanup Day data
tell us that most (between 60-80 percent) of the debris on
our beaches and shorelines comes from inland sources,
traveling through storm drains, creeks or rivers out to the
beaches and ocean. Rain -- or even something as simple
as hosing down a sidewalk --can wash cigarette butts, bits
of styrofoam, pesticides, and oil into the storm drains and
out to the ocean. We are asking all Californians to take
responsibility for making sure trash goes where it belongs
-- securely in a trashcan, recycling bin, or a hazardous
waste dump when appropriate.
California Coastal Cleanup Day
Link:
http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/ccd.html
For more information please
contact
Stephanie
Kendall
via e-mail or
at 749-5450.
Coastal Cleanup Day 2008
Last year we
concentrated on this same area. We had 125 volunteers
cleaning up 2 1/2 miles the shoreline along the Yuba River
between Shad Pad and Simpson Lane. For three hours the
river bottom was swarming with people on a mission to make
the area a better place.
Several volunteers used their own trucks
to help haul out loads of garbage
and tires. Volunteers were from Marysville High
Advanced Biology and Social Studies Classes, teachers,
parents, cub scouts, girl scouts and citizen volunteers from
as far as Reno! The
California Department of Fish and Game cleaned an additional
area along Jack Slough.
Grand Total:
18,600 lbs. illegally dumped debris! 5,180
lbs. of it was tires.