As if flooding wasn't enough, there's trash
The recent rains have caused our neighborhood park to be flooded, yet, again, by Buffalo Creek. I took my daughter to it to show and teach her about the effects of littering near or in our creeks and sewer drains.
While standing there, we saw a soccer ball, numerous plastic and glass bottles and oil containers, a croquet ball, Styrofoam cups, dishes and sheets, an entire tire (including the center part) and many large tree limbs and stumps.
We thought that was horrible until we saw the 5-foot wide wooden spool that cables come on floating along. We watched as it crashed into the bridge at Merritt Drive.
Fortunately, or not, the water was deep enough for the spool to make it under the bridge.
The banks of the creek are littered with hundreds of pieces of debris. Once the water level is low, my daughter and I plan to pickup litter from the creek.
It is inexcusable and embarrassing to think we don't care enough about our environment to be the cause of such a mess. Please stop littering and using the sewage drains as your trash can.
Pamela Smith
Greensboro
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Pamela, I noticed lots of trash in nearby lakes as well. I'm not sure, however, that people are using storm drains as trash cans as much as anything that wasn't nailed down got washed away last week.
I agree it is a sad site to see, especially when a lot of the items you mention are recyclable.
Posted on July 5, 2006 8:57 AM
Pamela, even though most here did not respond, I hope that everyone absorbed your message. Litter is a real problem and I don't think enough people understand when they throw something out of their car, don't clean up their yards when they find trash there or don't keep things put away that what results is our waterway being littered with the results. I agree that a lot of these things were a result of torential rains, but had they been put away or stored properly this would not have happened.
Posted on July 6, 2006 3:14 PM