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Stream Cleanup 2008
Thank you to all of our volunteers, partners and sponsors who made our Second Annual Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed-wide Stream Cleanups a success!
 This spring the Watershed Association and Americorps Watershed Ambassador Program coordinated a record breaking number of stream cleanups throughout our watershed.
April 5-6 & 12-13, 2008
Over 235 volunteers in nine towns during the two weekends in April were able to remove 10,000 pounds of litter from in and around our waterways. A job well done!
See our statistics below:
| Location | Volunteers | How much trash? (lb) | | What kind of trash? |
Cranbury
Middlesex Co. | 33 | unknown | | cigarette butts, plastic bottles, tires, air tank, bed frame |
East Windsor
Mercer Co. | 36 | 290 | | recyclables, cigarette butts, hockey mask, realtor sign, rusted guard rail, cinder block |
Franklin
Somerset Co. | 52 | 6,000 | | recyclables, tires, bicycle, shopping carts, water heater, car |
Hightstown
Mercer Co. | 53 | 850 | | recyclables, sign post, bike, gas tank, shopping cart, chair, terracotta pipes, parking cone, caution tape, concrete blocks |
Lawrence
Mercer Co. | 18 | 660 | | recyclables, food wrappers and plastic bags, pottery shards, shopping carts, tires, plastic crates, parking cones, suitcase |
Millstone
Monmouth Co. | 20 | 1,020 | | food wrappers, cigarette butts, car grill, gallon used oil, propane tank, construction pipe |
Monroe
Monmouth Co. | 16 | 700 | | recyclables, large plastic barrels, carpet, mattress parts, tires, styrofoam blocks |
Princeton/
West Windsor
Mercer Co. | 11 | 722 | | Recyclables, food wrappers, tires, bottles |
| Totals | 239 | 10,242 | | |
The Watershed Association partnered with Environmental Commissions and Public Works officials from these municipalities.
Sponsors of the 2008 Stream Cleanups were:
American Rivers, Eastern Mountain Sports, Saul Ewing, Wegmans, Whole Foods, and
Clean Communities from Cranbury, Lawrence and West Windsor.
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Want more? Check out our Americorp Ambassador Andy White's Blog!
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! - WatershedWatch
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