
Saturday, March 17, 2012, Prince William (PW) Park Authority sponsored an Adopt-A-Stream cleanup on Marumsco Creek in Veterans Park in partnership with PW Trails and Streams Coalition, PW Soil & Water Conservation District, Keep PW Beautiful, Neabsco Action Alliance, and PW County (Youth Ambassador Program). Over 70 volunteers came out to help fill 2 large roll off dumpsters with trash (including grocery carts, a couch, chairs, 2 televisions, lawn furniture, large trash cans, many 5 gallon buckets, toys, lumber, plywood, balls, a bicycle, a tricycle, an animal cage, a construction barrel, plastic and metal pipe, hundreds of bottles, cans, food wrappers, pieces of Styrofoam, plastic bags, and more) They also pulled 37 tires and a several hundred pounds of hazardous waste (including a 5 gallon bucket of paint, oil cans, propane tanks, gas cans, fire extinguishers, various types of spray cans, a large fuel tank, engine parts, and more) out of Marumsco Creek. The hard working volunteers removed a total of 7,105 pounds of trash in just 3 hours!
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a real find – digging it out
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a real find – getting closer
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it’s a new bike – well, not NEW
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the proud new owner
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Belinda and Holly
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Brian and Scott loading gator
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helping tally the trash
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Holly hard at work
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taking a break to watch his favorite TV show
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this is fun!
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they are off to see the wizard!
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thanks for recycling
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moochas smoochas!
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Mike wading across with barrel
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loading the gator
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propane tank
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super volunteer
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using the waders
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just getting started
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Kelly hard at work
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love those boots!
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Zoe, Earnie and tire
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more help
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Lynda in her finest
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and the metal drum was full! (of air)
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Zoe – keeping it real…muddy