Cleaning Up Church Creek

Project Clean Stream 2013 was our most successful year to date thanks to the 70+ volunteers that came out on Saturday, April 6^th!  Project Clean Stream is an annual event organized by the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and sponsored locally by the Home Depot and Bertuccis of Annapolis. The South River Federation and its volunteers cleaned up a portion of Church Creek, bordered by Rt. 2, Forest Dr., and the Forest Plaza parking lot. Notorious for illegal dumping and prone to trash run-off from nearby roads and parking lots, this creek was in desperate need of attention.  In fact, we cleaned up this same site just two years ago.  Our dedicated group of volunteers picked up 100 bags of trash, up to 50% of which was plastic bottles and bags. Other interesting items included: chainsaw, two kitchen sinks, multiple car parts and 5 tires.  Needless to say, after all this was removed, Church Creek looked beautiful!

We would like to thank our generous local sponsors who helped make this event a success:

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay for coordinating this event throughout the entire Bay watershed and for providing us with gloves, trash bags, and first aid kits.

Home Depot donated contractor bags, gloves, allowed us to use their trash-grabbers, and recruited Home Depot Associates with the cleanup.

Bertucci’s generously donated delicious pizzas for the volunteers to enjoy as a thank you for their hard work.