Volunteers descended on various Rock Creek Park sites over the Martin Luther King Day weekend to haul out accumulated trash, and boy, did they find a lot.
The cleanups organized by Rock Creek Conservancy included Broad Branch Stream, Soapstone Valley at Windom Place, and Peirce Mill. The Soapstone cleanup, a joint effort by the Conservancy and ANC 3F’s Soapstone and Melvin C Hazen Parks & Trails Committee, covered a relatively small area yet seemed to yield a disproportionately large amount of trash.
Great clean up this morning with @LoveRockCreek and @SheridanDC around Soapstone Valley in #Ward3 #mlkdayofservice @MayorBowser pic.twitter.com/v0OtEnHL6V
— DC MOCRS (@DCMOCRS) January 16, 2017
All the trash we picked up at Soapstone #rockcreekpark @LoveRockCreek #MLKDay pic.twitter.com/5wPuUpyZ0W
— Miles Tanner (@GlitchyBanana) January 16, 2017
Then there was this find:
Look what we found! Dug out this old lawnmower from the Soapstone area of Rock Creek today during our MLK Day of Service! @LoveRockCreek pic.twitter.com/N7cGfJxqrw
— ksansss⚖ (@ksansss) January 17, 2017
This final tweet expresses our sentiments exactly:
Incredible group of volunteers at Peirce Mill today! Thanks for helping clean up #rockcreekpark! #MLKDAY @LoveRockCreek pic.twitter.com/feF23vBxZN
— Blue Planet Scuba (@blueplanetdc) January 16, 2017
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Mary Beth Ray says
Great job everybody! Thanks especially to those who came from outside our neighborhood to help! The lawn mower wins the prize, but honorable mention goes to the 17 shopping carts and scores of moonshine bottles we’ve found over the years! Hopefully we can make this a monthly event.