Saturday, May 14, 2016
Big River Clean-up at the Confluence 2016
Sioux Passage County Park, St. Louis, MO
A fantastic day on the Missouri River cleaning up 5 TONS of trash with 184 new and old friends. Thank you to everyone that participated!
This clean-up was originally planned to be at Columbia Bottom Conservation Area (hence the name), but when repairs from this winter's flooding took longer than anticipated, we moved the whole thing to Sioux Passage Park, 11 miles upstream from the Confluence. Our thanks to the staff of Sioux Passage Park for their help in making this transition.
Our deepest gratitude to our sponsors - Missouri American Water, Rio Vista Fund, St. Louis- Jefferson Solid Waste Management District, REI St. Louis, Cannoli's, Missouri Department of Conservation, Mo. Dept. of Natural Resources, Hulston Family Foundation, Walmart and Pat Jones. We couldn't do it without you!
And a huge thanks to our Partners - Columbia Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office / Ecological Services, St. Louis County Parks, Dobbs Tire & Auto Centers,Metropolitan St Louis Sewer District, Ace Scrap Metal Processors, Domino's Pizza (Florissant), Missouri Stream Teams, and the League of Watershed Guardians, Missouri Stream Team 5168!
Trash Tally:
202 bags of trash!!
68 tires
6 chunks o Styrofoam
2 refrigerators
1 chest freezer
3 propane tanks
4 helium tanks shot full of holes
1 water softener tank
3 chairs
1 buoy
6 coolers
11 5-gal. plastic buckets
12 55-gal. plastic barrels
5 55-gal. metal drums
1 25-gal. metal drum
1 chunk o’ plastic
4 mineral buckets
1 car bumper
1 crank shaft
1 jet ski
1 truck bed liner
1 gas tank
2 plastic barricades
Assorted metal – 5
1 foot of PVC pipe
1 wooden crate
1 paint can
1 cloth tarp
2 pieces of wood with nails
1 curve ahead sign
11.4 mile marker sign
1 floating dock
1 fishing pole
1 roundup sprayer
1 trash can lid
5 small buckets
1 sled
1 piece of a swing set
1 baby bottle
1 glow stick still in the wrapper
Trash Contest
Best Darned Find of the Day
1 Dinosaur
Mr. Potato Head
Weirdest Trash
1 red light bulb
Biggest Trash
Styrofoam Cornerstone block
duck decoy
Space Panda
Oldest
can of WD-40
fuse
Best Muddy Ball
Basket balls
Nerf ball with tail
Sponge Bob ball
Gold ball
Bocci ball
Golf ball
Animal Find
1 Scooby Doo
1 (Plastic)Duck
1 (Plastic) Cow
1 Snake Skin
1 dead Turtle
Most Artistic Trash
1 bottle of blue glitter
1 green bottle of plato
1 18th hole golf sign
Most Fashionable
1 pair of wet shoes
1 hard hat
1 cell phone cover
1 tie
1 flip flop
Most Useful
1 hat
1 car grill
1 syringe medicine bottle
1 light bulb
1 comb pick
1 distributor
1 BSA survival back pack
1 USPS mail tray
Most likely to be Used as a Weapon
1 machete holder
1 shotgun shell
1 pipe wrench