River Cleanup Photos

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Other River Cleanups: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2002

July 19 Cleanup
Welcome tablecanoes on a trailerAda and David
Sign in for the June 19th cleanup.
Thank you Bagels Too
for the coffee. 		Canoes borrowed from Berkshire Community College - all set to go
Thank you BCC and Raymond for delivering and retrieving the trailer. 		Ada and David
stop working to have their picture taken.
Yvonne in her new wadercanoe full of trashDavid and Bruce with trash-filled canoe
Yvonne in her new waders!We canoed trash to the haul-out points.There was lots of big trash below the South Street bridge.
BEAT supports a manufactures take back program, by which manufacturers are required to take back their products at the end of their useful life to be refurbished or recycled.People staring down at the riverThree people in the river examining a very old refrigerator
Found the refrigerator,
but it is underwater and embedded in the mud.		Finally retrieved the refrigerator. Todd, Dick and Bruce
examining their prize.
Bruce with an old tireDavid on the phone in the middle of the riverHauling stuff up to the bridge
Bruce is a master at getting tires out even when they were buried in mud.David takes an important call.Fred hauled trash from the river up the bank to the South Street bridge.
James, Nick, and Hope in canoeTim and Ginny on the far shorecanoe loaded with trash
Hope, James and Nick loading their canoe.Tim with a loaded kayak and Ginny working on filling another bag.Another canoe waiting to be unloaded.
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Dick, Alison, Jane, and Bruce in front of the pile of trash at the end of Fairfield Street. Tires, tanks, shopping carts, and more.Trash at the bridge on
South Street.		Huge tire, lawn chair, a couple construction warning barrels and several traffic cones were among the trash collected.

July 17 Cleanup With Reid Middle School
bags of trashBlackeyed Susans planted next to the rivertash next to guardrail
The group of kids Jane was with collected trash along the river by Pittsfield Cemetery and hauled it out to Wahconah Street.They also planted flowers along the top of the cleaned river bank.Jeff's group collected trash from the river behind Harry's Supermarket on Wahconah St.
kids with flowers planted around a treeA group of kids and teachers from Reid Middle School held a fantastic cleanup on July 17th. About 55 kids cleaned up 5 different areas along the West Branch of the Housatonic River and planted flowers as well.

The kids were great!!!		trash on bridge
One group of kids planted flowers around a tree at Pitt Park.Thank you to Mary Yarmosky and David Penna-Ward for making this happen!The biggest pile was the trash the kids pulled out of the river at the Linden Street bridge.

THANK YOU EVERYBODY!

Thank You to all those who helped in the cleanups.

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