CleanUp07

10th Annual Buckeye Brook Earth Day
Warwick, RI
April 14, 2007

In our never ending search for obscurity in all of its permutations, seven members of the Obscure Company met on Saturday, April 14th to see what obscure items could be found on some of Rhode Island's beaches. We joined up with 175 other volunteers at the 10th Annual Buckeye Brook Earth Day clean up in Warwick, RI. About 500 yards of Warwick beach were ours to explore and search for unwanted, human provided, litter-type obscurity. And boy did we ever find it. After 3 short hours, we collected over 15 car tires, a couple dozen bags of general trash, and at least one discarded anchor. Had two of our members been a bit stronger, we would have added a radiator, a car hood, and a porch awning to the mix. You try to pry a cast-iron radiator out of wet sand next time you are at the beach, and we will see how far you get!

For more information on the Buckeye Brook Coalition and their efforts for a cleaner watershed, check out http://www.buckeyebrook.org/, very nice people, with a very nice cause.

Thanks to our Crew. From left: Carla, Bob, Liz, Mark, Dave, Doug, John

Before the clean up, we posed for an op... of photo type.

Notes from Buckeye Brook Coalition

Hello John

I wanted to personally thank you & your group for your participation in the Buckeye Brook earth day clean up. It was a tremendous success. We managed to put together a total count of 174 volunteers. I hope you all enjoyed the event. So Thanks once again to; You John, And your associates- Elizabeth, Douglas, David, Carla, Mark,& Bob.

Paul Earnshaw

V.P. Buckeye Brook Coalition

The 10th annual Buckeye Brook Earth Day event was a tremendous success. We are still compiling info, But a trash data sheet has been completed. We did have 151 registration forms filled out; But some registrations included more than 1 volunteer on each form. That info will be coming soon. BBC can not Thank those enough who participated.

2007 Buckeye Brook Earth Day clean up
Collection data

Fulton st.

40 lbs of metal

6 tires

3 bags mixed debris

1 bucket yard waste

Conimicut point park

6 bags mixed debris

Salt Marsh @ apprx 140 Point Av.

1 bag mixed debris

Corner of Spadina st & Olde Mill blvd.(transported to Wuddal Ave.)

2 bags mixed debris

Corner of Wuddal st & Symonds av

1 bag mixed debris

30 lbs of metal

1 tire

Tidewater ave @ Buckeye Brook

1 bag mixed debris

Longmeadow fishing area @ the end of Samuel Gorton ave

There are 2 piles @ each side of parking lot

22' boat

3 bags mixed debris

1 auto fuel tank

5 tires

2 gas grills

20' pool liner

plywood 4x8

80 lbs of metal

Warwick neck ave @ warcwick cove overlook

4 bags mixed debris

Draper ave & road to child Inc.

2 tires

stop & shop cart

26 bags mixed debris

100 lbs of metal

West shore rd @ Buckeye Brook

1 tire

1 Traffic cone

Lakeshore dr & Buckeye brook

22 bags mixed debris

2 tires

1 bathroom sink

1 gas grill

Knights of Columbus Hall

8 tires 1 refrigerator door

1 shopping cart

1 power saw

1 gumball machine

1 mattress 4 large tarpes

60 bags mixed trash

Oakland beach (parking lot west side near Brush Neck)

30 tires

6 bicycles

3 auto fuel tanks

2 gas grills

1 hot water heater

50 bags of mixed debris

500 lbs of metal

Sherman School May have been moved to Knights of Columbus)

3 bags mixed debris

tires

mattress

Lockwood Cemetary (behind assembly of God Church on Sandy Ln)

5 bags mixed debris

This is an estimate taken on 4/15/07 Warwick pulic works did remove approx 4 truck loads of trash from different sites on the day of the event, which data was not collected.

Some Pictures

Picking stuff up...

This area was a mess.

View from behind a boat.

Another shot from behind... why can no one find a spot for tires?