Home Contra Costa County Photos: Volunteers Pull Trash from Upper Sand Creek Basin

Photos: Volunteers Pull Trash from Upper Sand Creek Basin

by ECT

On January 19, nearly 35 volunteers cleaned up trash at the Upper Sand Creek Basin in Antioch during the Martin Luther King Day of Service.

Hosting by the Friends of Marsh Creek Watershed and Contra Costa County Flood Control, volunteers got muddy as they pulled multiple bags of trash, including medical equipment from the basin.

The Sand Creek Basin is a 10-acre, $10 million flood protection and habitat restoration project recently constructed.  In March of 2014, a similar workday event planted nearly 1000 native plants and trees. 400 of these plants were collected from the site, propagated and cared for over the past two years by county employee volunteers. In 2012,

They Friends of Marsh Creek Watershed hopes to use the work site to teach people about ways we can clean up our water ways and create more naturalized creek systems that also protect our homes from flooding

Congressman Jerry McNerney joined the groups efforts Monday and picked up multiple bags of trash.

For more photos than what is shown below, visit http://vsheridan.photoshelter.com

You may also like