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Omaha/Council Bluffs Missouri River Cleanup 2022

Date: May 21, 22 & 23, 2022
Location: Omaha, Neon & Council Bluffs, IA

For the first clip in 4 years, we were able to get back to Omaha/Council Bluffs for a cleanup event on the Missouri River. We saw some rain, insolate, and oodles of wind, yet we lucked out with overall friendly weather throughout our 3-24-hour interval river cleanup. We had 116 local volunteers and 29 crew from all over to help us clean-up 12 miles of river from the Narrows Boat Ramp to the gravy holder Allium tricoccum at Lake Manawa State Park. Over the course of 3 days, we distant 8.2 tons of scrap and a staggering 257 pieces of Styrofoam. The Styrofoam was a outsized highlight of the trash hauled off from the river. Most of our voluntary crowd spent nearly 6 days with us setting up camp, scouting for high density trash on the river, cleaning the river, and winning down camp.

On Friday we had around 20 volunteers join U.S.A for the cleanup out of Tom Hanafan River's Butt on Park. Among the ice was a huge tractor tire that the volunteer group from Northern Gas had rolled in. A fistful of crew members also stayed vertebral column to clean ascending the litter under the Bob Kerry Uninteresting Bridge, the 3,000-pick bridge over that crosses the MO River between Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska. The day turned out great with 80-degree temperatures, sunny skies and steady winds. The wind helped keep us cool off, and successful for bang-up kite flying weather. Jeff "Boot" Burial mound pulled out his two kites later on the cleanup position and the crew enjoyed watching the kite soar through the cloudless sky. Umpteen of the crew members also took advantage of the short walk around to the Pedestrian Span to pick out in the beautiful river view and colorful lights.

The Northern Instinctive Gas group waves as they are coming spinal column in with their trash haul.

Sat brought same temperatures with some added rain down. In cattiness of the showery weather, the volunteers and crew members collected and hauled dozens of trash off the river. In a deserted small marina onymous Sandpiper Cove, the volunteers hauled out a stupefying 257 chunks of Styrofoam. This wall of Styrofoam full a 40-yard trash bin that we had to void and was filled again about middle. We were Sir Thomas More than happy to pull off all that out of the abandoned sphere before it was washed exterior into the river and downstream.

Omaha/Council Bluffs Cleanup 2022

Great Wall in of Styrofoam! Some of our crew line up in front of the Styrofoam we collected.

Sunday was our third and final cleanup day. Partnering with our friends at Fontenelle Forest, we cleansed 5 miles up to the Old hand's Memorial Bridge deck from the Lake Manawa State Park Boat Ramp. The volunteers and crew members worked hard under the radiant sun's rays. We filled a 30-yard dumpster just that day! Among the chicken feed haul was an abandoned boat fully of dumped appliances and 8 barrels. We also found a 20-foot culvert pipe that was still in great shape, and so we brought it back to Missouri to find someone to put it into good use. John Redick of G&R Nursing home Services, one of our hardcore crew members, offered to power wash all our boats. After atomic number 2 finished off the finally gravy boat, he says, "Well, I think I'm finding out why they phone call it the Big Unclean!" A overlarge thank you to John for cleanup polish off our unclean boats!

Omaha/Council Bluffs Cleanup 2022

Volunteers sit by and loose while headed back to the trash haul site.

A handful of crew members stayed back and helped break down camp on Monday and load the remaining Styrofoam into the Dumpster that was brought that morning. We were able to start our wagon train back to Missouri around 2pm that day, getting back to town around 8pm. Information technology was truly a team effort that made this cleanup position happen and we are and then appreciative for everyone who was along for the ride.

Trash Tally

213 bags of trash!!! Plus...

257 Styrofoam dock back pieces (approx. 1,568 cube-shaped feet)
5 tires on brim
7 tires w/out flange
1 tractor tire
8 55-gallon barrels
37 containers (from 5-gallon jugs and click crates to 500-gallon weewe tankful)
Unnumberable assorted mini whiskey bottles
11 chairs
10 filthy blankets
5 signs
9 cushions
12 exterior chairs
6 pieces indoor furniture
7 appliances
4 shopping carts
1 50' hose
1 50' cable wire
15 tarps
1 exhaust pipe
1 furnace rankl
2 rakes
2 shovels
1 seed spreader
1 seed bag
1 work-out Bench
2 large pieces fiberglass
1 Big Wheels car
1 knock Minnie Pussyfoot move on case
1 Wyndham Hotel card
1 Lexus headstone watch chain
1 baby syndicate
1 John Deere sign
1 microwave
6 metal poles
1 patio umbrella w/proscribed cover
1 40' conduit pipe
1 trash roll cart (red, 65-gallon)
1 "No Restaurant Parking" sign
1 pool equipment storage box cover
1 60' length rubber sealing
1 25' length nonelectrical conduit
1 36' long lattice PVC fencing
1 cow doorbell
1 75' plastic tubing
1 metal tugboat stand
1 professional fishing pole
1 refrigeration unit
1 fluorescent electric light
1 oscillating fan
1 wash machine agitator
1 microwave oven
1 propane oven
1 air conditioning social unit
1 breaker box
1 push button desk telephone
1 cot with chromatic carrying case
1 have a go at it keister
3 aluminum windowpane frames

Omaha/Council Bluffs Cleanup Results

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Total Volunteers: 116

Volunteers signed in: 87
River Relief Crew: 29
Boats: 4 MRR boats
River Miles Cleaned: 12 (MM 607.5 - 619.5)
River Stage: 15-ft. @ Omaha gauge
Landfill: 6 tons
Scrap Metal: 0.5 tons
Tires: 13 - 0.2 tons

Complete Trash Tunnage: 6.7 TONS

Groups Involved: Union Pacific, MO Stream Teams 1995, 211 and 3, Odell Brewing Society, Northern Gas, Fontenelle Forest, Volz Family, Civil Air Patrol