Next River Cleanup – July 17, 2010
Our June 19th river cleanup was a great success. Our next river cleanup will meet at Fred Garner Park on Pomeroy Ave in Pittsfield at 8:30 am. We plan to cleanup from the confluence of the Southwest and West branch (upstream of Fairfield and Taylor Streets) all the way to the Holmes Road river bridge. If you have your own canoe or kayak and want to clean that way, please bring it. Or if you would rather work from shore there is plenty to do that way as well.
Please let us know if you are coming so we can plan logistics and have enough food for lunch.
This cleanup is being organized by BEAT, First Church, and Housatonic Valley Association.
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Hi Russ,
I am sorry you can’t be with us. These cleanups are always a lot of fun. This one will be mostly big stuff (tires, a refrigerator, bicycles, shopping carts). If we have enough cans and bottles we’ll try to do a tally, but that works best in our spring/high-water cleanups when we are working on the banks more than in the river itself. But the timing would be perfect to make the point that an Updated Bottle Bill would cut way down on the new small trash going into the river.
Thank you for all you do to protect the environment!
Jane
Hi Jane Unfortunately I will not be able to participate in this cleanup. If I were, though, I would have tried to coordinate a beverage container tally (i.e., count up bottled and cans collected during the cleanup and compare the # of deposit containers to the non-deposit containers). As you (may) know, a proposal to expand the Mass. Bottle Bill (see to cover bottled water recently received a favorable report out of committee, and it might be good to add some empirical evidence from Pittsfield that beverage container deposits work to reduce discarded cans and bottles littering our landscapes and waterways.
I hope the cleanup goes well (please feel free to conduct a beverage container tally in my absence).
— Russ Cohen