The Rogue cleaned The Rocks

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Thursday morning is now my time to go to The Rocks with Petey and pick up litter.  The water got high during the recent storms, and had gone back down a lot, but not enough to easily walk onto the peninsula. 

There was very little trash in the inner parking area; the weather hadn’t been nice enough for many visitors.  The high water had cleaned up most signs of prospecting, filling holes in with sand and rocks.  There were still some sandy clumps of weeds lying on the rocks, and the big round hole had stayed well above all the water, open and ugly.  But the big brush pile down by the river was spread out and looks like it belongs now.

 The river moved major rocks into the biggest hole

The brush pile is not so obviously piled now.  I picked out that blue flip-flop.

The river filled this excavated crack; the rain gullied it.

But the round hole and the dirt thrown out of it stayed above water.

Since the city had given me nice strong yellow trash bags, I decided to clean up the trash from the brush pile in the east parking area up by the road.  It ended up taking two bags, starting with the vacuum cleaner that had been left in the brush pile and started the trash accumulation over a year ago in the fall.  There also were some fiberglass-covered chip boards that were heavy enough for the second bag, and a bunch of miscellaneous trash. 

I dropped off the bags by the dumpster in the Reinhart Volunteer Park (AKA All Sport Park) by the Maintenance office dumpster, as they were heavy.  I figure I’ll get the source of all the trouble, the brush pile, next week.