OUR AIM IS TO PROTECT OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE HABITAT THAT IT PROVIDES FOR WILDLIFE
Note - an Annual Summary of our work can be found on the TO DO page.
A good turnout - group members prepared to start work on a hot summer day.
27th July 2014
27th July 2014
Look back to the entry for our meet on December 22nd 2013 and compare!
The Group Meet on Sunday 27th July was very productive. An exceptional haul of unwanted items were pulled up from the river today at the Guildford Road bridge where the river was running clear, apart from the rubbish. Our main area is downstream of the bridge.
Using ropes and hooks slung over the parapet, one rusty bicycle, a discarded football goal net, a supermarket trolley, two large blocks of polystyrene and assorted cans and bottles were hauled up directly from the river bed. Other members of the group collected large amounts of 'picnic' litter found along the whole of our stretch of the riverside. Perhaps for such a large area it wasn't at all excessive.
Two large blocks of polystyrene, part of the base of a scrapped garden shed
- they almost filled the river.
and a rusty bicycle -
A supermarket trolley, fortunately the wheels were still good -
The complete haul retrieved from the river
at the Guildford Road bridge, being wheeled to the collection point
from where HDC Parks and Countryside Rangers removed it.
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