Conestoga River Cleanup

April 8, 2011 | National River Cleanup, Restoring Rivers

It was my pleasure to spend a brisk spring morning this Saturday picking up trash along the Conestoga River in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with Manheim Pennsylvania’s great staff.

Photo ©Anne Paterson, American Rivers

Through our relationship with Cox Enterprises, Manheim (a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises) hosted a cleanup as a part of National River Cleanup^™ with 60 staff members, friends and family and removed 2.6 tons of trash from the shore of the Conestoga.

Stuck in the mud were 49 tires, 2 shopping carts, bed springs, hundreds of old glass bottles, scrap metal, a scooter and much more – we never expected to find as much as we did. It was rumored that our site had been an old dumping area. It is also possible that more trash had been deposited by last fall’s flood. However the trash got there, we got it out!

Cleanups help us to understand how we affect our watersheds. Much of the trash we removed was trash we can avoid or recycle – disposable garbage like plastic grocery bags, plastic water bottles, and junk food wrappers. If we clean up our habits, we can clean up our watersheds, too.

Thank you, Cox Enterprises and Manheim for being excellent stewards of your watersheds. More info on the company’s environmental projects can be found at coxconserves.com.

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