Rotary Club of Norfolk

Save the BayCommunity Service Project

June 6, 2009

Thank You!! 

Our club's volunteers: 27 enthusiastic volunteers, including spouses and children

Task: Clean up the creek area in East Ocean View near 5 blocks along Pleasant Avenue

Tools used: Rakes, shovels, buckets, gloves, waders, sweat equity and one kayak

Time spent: 3 hours

Result: 2,810 pounds of trash collected and documented. We filled 85 big trash bags and left several piles of heavy debris for city trucks to collect

Interesting finds: Lots of plastic items along with enough materials to build a house, a headless GI Joe, a bedraggled doll, beach balls, butane lighters,

baseball bat and part of a surfboard.

Overall Perspective: We were among 5,150 volunteers at the 21st Clean the Bay Day who cleaned 327 miles of Virginia waterway and removed 153,650 pounds

of debris that otherwise have ended up in the Chesapeake Bay.