Hi everyone.

Roy and I completed an unplanned second trash cleanup along Addison Creek in Broadview yesterday. We returned to the same location we had been earlier in May to complete what we had not been able to finish — a trucking terminal parking lot on the west side of the creek.

While we were able to gather 7 bags of trash, we were prevented from doing a thorough cleanup by the dense growth of bushes and small trees that had sprung up along the bank. Now, a month later, the fast growing weeds and brush prevented us from getting at some of the trash. This is good and bad. Bad because it prevents accessing trash that has gone farther down the bank, but good in that the dense growth will help prevent trash from blowing down the bank and into the water.

Additionally, that area is now LOADED with poison ivy and that prevented any kind of thorough trash cleanup at this time, forcing us to cut the cleanup short. But, 7 bags of trash is still pretty respectable for less than an hour of work.

Thanks!

Mark Peterson