Bidwell Park and Creeks of Chico Cleanup 2011Bidwell Park and Chico Creek Clean-up a success!Saturday, September 17th, 2011
BEC’s 2010 Clean-up event removed nearly 10,000 pounds of waste from our creeks, which was made possible thanks to our many volunteers as well as our greatly appreciated sponsors. A total of 228 volunteers showed up early Saturday morning on September 18th, geared up with gloves, trash bags and “grabbers,” provided to us by Harbor Freight, greatly increasing our productivity as well as decreasing our direct contact with possible health hazards. All participants were assigned areas of Bidwell Park or areas in or around Chico’s creeks. The Comanche Creek area was thoroughly picked up by two volunteer groups and a great crew from the California Conservation Corps helped with the entire clean-up. Upper and Lower Park were cleaned from top to bottom, and volunteers scoured Big and Little Chico Creeks, Sycamore Creek and Lindo Channel.
HAL LLC gave us permission to use the new site on Park Ave at 12th Street, and this worked out so well, that we hope to be able to use it again next year. We want to thank all our sponsors again, for their help and support; without them none of this could have been accomplished! Major Sponsors
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Hundreds of pounds of recyclable material and scrap metal were among the refuse picked up throughout the parks. The waste included several pieces of furniture, coolers, tires, shopping carts, children’s toys, bicycle frames and even an entire dilapidated shed. Picking up all of this trash before the rains started helped to keep it from going into the Sacramento River and on into the ocean.