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Volunteers from UWF Student Ambassadors and Central Credit Union helped pick up 212 lbs of trash at Bay Bluffs Park. Nine more people at Chimney Park collected a further
Last month picked up numerous plastic sleeves for Pensacola News Journals. A further 11 were found along Scenic Hwy
to stripe parking spaces.
Hats off to the 29 volunteers that moved over to the campground and picked up 346 lbs of trash. Thank you! 7 volunteers at the Bob Sikes Bridge collected 23 more lbs.
In the median on Hwy 98 going thru Naval Live Oaks credit cards were found. If you know Annamaria L. McCoy have her contact us.
by Ocean Hour above the water surface and Third coast Divers below the surface.
81 volunteers form Tiger Rock Martial Arts, Gulf Breeze Marine Science Club, Escambia HS Beta Club and Sandy Creek HS (Atlanta) picked up 149 lbs of trash. Underwater, 765 lbs was picked up around the pier by Third Coast Divers.
Thanks to Third Coast Divers the monthly total was 2,141 lbs and for the year 16,588!
Members of UWF’s Student Environmental Action Society helped to pick up 75 lbs of trash at Bartram park. A further 550 lbs was collected at Wayside Park/Graffiti Bridge by 83 volunteers
Each week has unique items - last week was 20+ Pensacola News Journal newspaper plastic wrappers along Scenic Hwy. This week it was 12 “airplane” size bottles of alcohol along a short stretch of Bayfront Pkwy!
24 volunteers removed 188 lbs. of trash from our beautiful coastline yesterday. All 3 spots were a little cleaner than usual so that's good! We’ll be back at Fort Pickens on September 28th, free entry to the park in honor of National Public Lands Day!
Members of Scout Troop 3 from Cokesbury United Methodist Church helped 33 volunteers pick up 116 lbs at Bruce Beach. Note; for the first time in months I didn’t pick up a single tooth flosser!
A further 95 lbs was picked up 23 volunteers at Sanders Beach
Heavy rain drops halfway thru the cleanup at a stormwater outfall near Bartram Park.
45 volunteers did tuff it out to pick up 330 lbs of trash at Pensacola Visitor Centre and Bartram Park. Thanks for the effort
An example of the log sheet Ocean Hour FL uses weekly at each site. We keep track of the number of volunteers (9), lbs of trash (112 lbs) and volume (# of trash bags). For this Saturday a total of 228 lbs, 32 volunteers and 1 x 13, 8 x 40 and 3 x 50 USG trash bags.
Also keep track of “unique” items. It is something else to find numerous alcohol containers along the side of the highway!
Ocean Hour is because of our community. We are always in awe of the generosity of our volunteers! This week Brix Design http://brixdesigninc.com/ donated two new feather flags to Ocean Hour for use at our cleanups! Thank you, thank you!!
Brix Design http://brixdesigninc.com/ Thank you, thank you!!
Plastics come in all sizes!
At Park West parking lot and dog park, 86 lbs of trash was picked up by 21 volunteers. The month’s total was 546 lbs. The first month in 2019 less lbs were picked up than last year.
