First Annual Nimishillen Creek LEAP

Litter Elimination, Awareness and Prevention

Saturday, August 24, 2002

Cook Park and Cook Lagoon

Over 20 volunteers carried on through wind and rain to collect over 35 bags of litter in the First Annual Nimishillen Creek LEAP organized by the Nimishillen Creek Watershed Partners.  Items such as purses, bottles of motor oil, shopping carts, plastic bags, bicycles, and other items were pulled from the Middle Branch of Nimishillen Creek as it runs through Cook Park and Cook Fishing Lagoon in the City of Canton.

 

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Stream bank before the clean-up.	A volunteer removes trash from Nimishillen Creek	Check dam area before the Creek LEAP.
	Check dam area after the Creek LEAP.	Volunteers gather around the frame of a sofa-bed they just removed from the Creek.
Stream bank after the clean-up.	Garbage collected during the Nimishillen Creek LEAP.	A truck load of trash removed from Cook Park and Cook Lagoon during the clean-up.
	MORE garbage collected during the Creek LEAP.