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The tourists are gone - only 109 lbs picked up by 41 volunteers. 2,002 lbs of trash picked up in October - most ever in a month for OceanHour!
Thanks to Sarah Velazquez, an intern at UWF for continuing to update the Public Water Bottle Stations map of her design. Updated map on the water bottle page
Pensacola Visitor Center/Graffiti Bridge and Bartram Park. Thanks to Cub Pack 632 and NOSC from NAS Saufley Field.
Andy and Sharon picked up more trash (77 lbs)when investigating the east side of the train trestle bridge opposite Graffiti Bridge
OceanHour is updating the PUBLIC locations of Water Bottle Refill Stations. Please note on the two maps there is a physical description of where the station is at each site! We need the precise location “at Ft. Barrancas”. Otherwise someone has to go there to locate it
This is a combination water fountain and bottle filling stattion
To add your site, please use the “Sign up for an Event” button on the Home Page.
Schools and fitness centers w/ membership requiremnets are NOT PUBLIC
Please help us out!
From Surfing’s Evolution & Preservation Foundation to purchase supplies for trash pick up. Includes grabbers, pails, garbage bags, gloves etc. To learn more about the organization click here
Our beaches thank you!
47 volunteers picked up 356 lbs of debris including plastic bottles, styrofoam of all sizes and cigarette butts
Andy & Tammy from OceanHour joined the volunteers from Pensacola Yak and Pack to remove debris (470 #’s) from below the surface of Bayou Texar. 187 lbs collected at Pensacola Beach/NLO by GBHS Science Club and OceanHour volunteers
The month of September was the most pounds collected so far at 1,700! This year to date of 11,776. Photo of Sharon entering data into MyCoast. Join us Oct 6th for a cleanup from the waterside at Bayview Park
UWF ‘s Pre-Physicians Assistants and GBHS Science Club joined in collecting 130 lbs of plastic and styrofoam by 64 volunteers - 971 straws at Quietwater Beach AFTER the beach sieve drove over!!
At OceanHour’s 3 sites a total of 525 lbs was collected by 81 volunteers. 284 lbs at Pensacola Visitor Center/Graffiti Bridge, 182 lbs at Margaritaville and 59 at Bartram Park
Under the Coastal Defense heading speaks on OceanHour’s activities to clean up our beaches and educate on reducing single use plastics. Plastic straws are a simple starting point to increase awareness
