Each autumn, the Georgia Wilderness Society has a river clean up trip on our hometown river, the Ocmulgee. This year, we had several in October. Here are some of the photos from the October 20, 2007 cleanup. Once again, we did this clean up as a part of the statewide Rivers Alive program. Several other civic groups in the area also did clean ups from the banks of the river, which helped out a great deal.
The neatly stacked tires in the rear were pulled from the sandbar where we took out. The pile in the front, along with the bags of trash were what we had in our canoes. The sad part is that there is still probably 20 or more tires remaining. We simply did not have room for them in our boats. We will have to get them next time! This weekend, we worked to pull at least 40 tires, heaps of trash, aluminum cans, glass, balls, tricycles, shopping carts, and barrels out of the Ocmulgee River near Macon. By the end of the day, we were muddy, wet, hot, and probably would have been escorted out of any self respecting restaurant....but we still did the river a lot of good! A big thank you goes out to all of the groups that helped out on the various sections of the river this year.
