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Volunteers haul debris from about 3–3.5 mile stretch of Great Miami River near Vandalia
Summary
Volunteer crews, including Scout Troop 307 and city employees, canoed from Old Springfield Ross Road to the Tayrosville Dam takeout, collecting roughly two loader-bucket loads of trash; partners included Adventures on the Great Miami, Fox's Pizza Den (Vandalia), Clean Sweep and Rumpke.
Volunteer crews collected and hauled debris after a canoe-based river cleanup that ran about 3 to 3.5 miles from Old Springfield Ross Road to the Tayrosville Dam takeout, a presenter said. The crew bagged trash, filled a public-works loader bucket roughly two times, transferred the material to a tandem-axle dump truck and deposited it in a public-works roll-off for pickup by Rumpke. The cleanup date and the primary organizer were not specified in the transcript.
The presenter identified participants as volunteers from Scout Troop 307 and said about half of the participants were city employees volunteering their time. Adventures on the Great Miami provided canoes at a discounted rate, Fox's Pizza Den in Vandalia donated discounted pizzas for volunteers, and Clean Sweep of the Great Miami River supplied bags and gloves; the presenter described Clean Sweep as running from Indian Lake down to the Ohio River. "You don't have to wait for a special event to pick up trash," the presenter said, adding, "we all live downstream." The debris was left in the city roll-off to be collected by Rumpke.
