Beach Chair

Bassett Creek Outlet

I've spent a little time on all of the beach areas in my "adopt a river" mile this week.  I thought I had wandered into someone's camp for a minute and was going to leave when I realized it was just an abandoned broken chair.  When stuff like this gets left down here the spring flooding will sweep it up and take it downstream along with other garbage and debris from downed trees.  I took the chair bag and left the chair in a spot where I could grab it later.  It is now sitting next to that stove top that I don't know what to do with.

With low water levels so much trash in the mud is exposed and easy to be picked up.

As the summer is quickly coming to an end I am starting to contemplate what I need to do before it turns cold.  There is still a mess on the south side of Bassett Creek.  I think I will eventually be able to scoot down the hill and pull that trash out but for now it is too muddy.  The traffic of people using the park will start to decrease soon.  Once my mile is clean, the question is how to get people to pick up after themselves.