Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014
Brunswick Grand & Missouri River Clean-up 2014
Brunswick Marina - Brunswick, MO
We kicked off our Big Muddy Clean Sweep 2014 with a great cleanup of the Grand and Missouri Rivers based out of the sweet river town of Brunswick.
81 volunteers removed 2.1 tons of junk from the banks of both rivers.
Brunswick is one of the nicest river towns there is, and that's saying a lot. We set up camp at the Brunswick Marina
pavilion, and the whole time we were there our friends in the community kept stopping by to give us food, drinks or just to check in with us.
Colleen Johnson stopped by the day before the clean-up asking if there was anyway she could help. We mentioned that we could use a couple extra hands to prepare lunches for volunteers. She showed up the next day with a box of tomatoes and 8 friends! Mayor Joe Moser let us use his water nearby. The Short brothers, Jeffrey and Dallas, kept stopping by all weekend to help out. They worked all day for the clean-up too.
Thank you to the Missouri River Chillicothe crew from MDC for bringing boats (plus Greg Pitchford gave a presentation on fisheries biology), AGRIServices of Brunswick for their donation and for bringing a front end loader, Brunswick Distributing Company for donating lunch and drinks for volunteers, UpRiver Urban Exchange for their wifi support and prize donations.
This was our first clean-up of the Big Muddy Clean Sweep, a two-month long cleanup from Brunswick to Hermann. For more info and to sign up, see: http://www.riverrelief.org/updates/entry/big-muddy-clean-sweep-2014/— at Brunswick Marina.
Trash Tally!
54 Trash Bags
26 Tires on Rims
1 Tire w/o Rim
2 Freezers
2 ½ - 55-Gallon Plastic Barrels
2 - 55-Gallon Metal Drums
2 - 5-Gallon Plastic Buckets
2 Huge Chunks Styrofoam
1 Freezer Door
6 Propane Tanks
1 Washing Machine Agitator
1 Chair
1 Metal Tub
1 Screen Door
2 treated Wooden Beams (bolted together)
2 Large Hard Plastic Shapes (one pink, one green)
1 - 2-Gallon Plastic Jug
3 Plastic Tubs
2 Coolers
Trash Contest Entries!!!
1 Metal Gas Tank (rusted)
1 Child’s Snow Sled
1 Plastic Container “Fun Dough”
1 Miniature Plastic Hay Bale
1 American Flag (on wooden pole)
1 Baby Doll Head
1 Baby Doll Body
1 Marshmallow Head
1 Glow Stick (yellow)
1 Marker
1 Miniature Mack Truck Cab (metal, pink and blue)
2 Car Headlights
1 Light Bulb
1 Glass Baby Jar
1 Blue Glass Jar
1 Green Glass Jug
1 Purple Glass Lamp Base
1 Kansas Jayhawk Basketball (blue and white)
1 Baseball
1 Tennis Ball
1 Plastic Baseball
1 Plastic Duck (yellow)
1 Toy Dog
1 Snapping Turtle Shell
1 Weird Fish Bone
1 Plastic Happy Face Animal
1 Baby Pacifier (shades of pink)
1 Toothbrush (orange)
1 Army Canteen (dirty green)
1 Comb (blue plastic)
1 Bobber (red with white)
1 Fork (stainless steel)