St. Andrew's Episcopal came out to clean up Deer Island with us on Friday May 4th, 2012. This group traveled down from Ridgeland, MS to help out with the Mississippi Marine Debris Removal and Prevention Project. This was a really good group of students that were ready and rearing to go!
We found a few unusual things while combing the island for debris such as, a plastic cat head that was buried in the sand with a visor attached to it, large ropes, chunks of rubber and crab trap fragments.
After we finished on the South side, the group in the front decided to add a wave to the island =)
We collected lots of treated wood with rusty nails in them, they listened very well and kept the sharp nails away from their hands during collection!
Some even ventured off the beaten track to grab some plastics they saw from a distance!
We were keeping out of the grasses because the Least Terns are making nests in the grasses and we wanted to leave them be, so we stayed in a specific area out of the grasses for the trip.
These two gentlemen in the picture above pulled the very heavy wheel barrow full of treated wood, shards of glass and chunks of scrap metal all the way from the South to the North side of the island! Great job, great work ethic and I hope that you guys keep it up!
I want to thank St. Andrew's Episcopal for their hard work and dedication to this project, they traveled a great distance to make a world of difference =) We collected a total of 410.49 lbs of debris! This number makes this gorup the runner up of the Mississippi Marine Debris Removal & Prevention Project, following the 810 lbs collected by Mary Bethune High School! Congratulations and keep on cleaning, no matter where you live, we are downstream from there!
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