Aug 18th South Branch Raritan River Cleanup

[NJDrew]

The "Double Down" event as a follow-up to the July 17th cleanup was a great success. Such a great success it was re-dubbed the "quadruple down event"... That's right we had a goal of 100 more tires and all groups pulled a total of 406 more tires! In addition to that we pulled a lot of trash including bikes, a tv, gas fireplace and a few batteries. At 9am our group started at the Sears bridge (white bridge) in Neshanic and stopped at the 2nd Opie/River rd Bridge in Flagtown at about 9:30pm. Our group pulled approx 156 tires of the 406 total.

Now for the pictures:

Morning Meeting - Organizers Joe (blue bandana) & Steve (camo tee) / Group Leaders (Eric leaning against the SUV w/ Green hat), Dineen (in front of Eric) and Dawn (pink bandana)

Getting started at the Sears Bridge (White bridge in Neshanic)

Brian holding our redesigned tire rafts

Pulling a steel girder from the river (from the RR bridge maybe?)

Steel girder

Steel girder left on the bank as it was too heavy to float down river

Gas fireplace, left at the bank as it was also too heavy to float

Brian with some tires

Under the River rd bridge

Under the River rd bridge

Eric looking in the deep holes

Tin and Chris with some bikes and steel stuff

More stuff

First drop point under Opie rd bridge (94 tires, two bikes, a tv and other trash)

First drop point under Opie rd bridge (94 tires, two bikes, a tv and other trash)

Trying to pull what looked like a pool cover

Anetes Taxi w/ Mike

Spreading out bellow Opie rd bridge

Second drop off near Clawson ave

Second drop off near Clawson ave

 

[NJDrew]

A little follow up to this effort, all tires and garbage have been moved and are being shipped off to processing facilities. Eric managed to do some sweat talking at the Somerset County Parks department and got help from them to clear all the drop zones: