Over the edge?

OK, maybe I'm going a bit over the edge - you tell me. Here's the deal, Friday I went out and bought hip-waders. I don't fish. I don't hunt. I pick up trash.

I went out Saturday morning and hit the Nashua River Watershed at Rt. 117 in Lancaster. My goal was to finally make a dent in the enormous logjam between Rt. 117 and Center Rd. I strapped on the hip-waders, grabbed a bunch of trash bags, some strong waterproof gloves and got into it.

I worked for about 3 hours on one small area. My goal wasn't to haul everything away, rather collect and bag as much as I could reach. I've been picking at this one area for a couple of years now, but nothing seems to make a dent.

I was in as deep as I could go, collecting debris. I pulled 2 tires, 2 coolers, a propane tank, and about 9 bags of rubbish out of the water and from all around the island. That was hard work, and it certainly made a dent, but it's probably less than half of what's there. Here's a before shot:



And here's an after shot:



I couldn't get everything, but I really didn't expect to. It's a good start on what is the single biggest problem area on the Nashua River now.

If you're paddling past, there are many bags of collected trash still on the island, please grab some and take it with you, I'd appreciate it.