Posted: August 24, 2012
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Liz Sedlacek, GBRA, (830) 379-5822,
LOCKHART, Texas – For the fifth straight year, friends, neighbors and other interested volunteers will converge in Lockhart for the annual Plum Creek/Town Branch/Lockhart Springs Cleanup beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, at the main Pavilion in City Park.
Organizers of this activity plan to provide lunch for cleanup volunteers, and event-related T-shirts will be provided until supplies are depleted.
“The cleanup involves getting as many volunteers as possible to help collect litter along Town Branch Creek, Plum Creek and the waterways and areas through various Lockhart parks,” said Plum Creek Watershed Coordinator, Nick Dornak,
Participants also will be given gloves and bags to collect trash that will be weighed and sorted for recycling.
“The first Plum Creek Watershed cleanup in 2008 resulted in more than 500 pounds of trash being collected with half of that being recycled,” said Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority Director of Water Quality Services, Debbie Magin. “Now that more members of the community are involved, more ground is covered and these volunteers can take pride in contributing to the cleanup of this great community and its waterways,” she added.
In connection with the cleanup, community members may enjoy an environmental fair featuring a variety of booths with information about Plum Creek, water quality and conservation, recycling, drought, mulch options and other related topics. Some environmental fair participants include the City of Lockhart, Lockhart State Park, Lost Pines Chapter of Texas Master Naturalists, Texas Stream Team, Plum Creek Watershed Partnership and GBRA.
For more information, contact Sonja Villalobos locally at 512-213-9410, or Dornak at 512-213-7389 or email ndornak@plumcreekwatershed.org.
The GBRA was established by the Texas Legislature in 1933 as a water conservation and reclamation district. GBRA provides stewardship for the water resources in its 10-county statutory district, which begins near the headwaters of the Guadalupe and Blanco rivers, ends at San Antonio Bay, and includes Kendall, Comal, Hays, Caldwell, Guadalupe, Gonzales, DeWitt, Victoria, Calhoun, and Refugio counties.
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Liz Sedlacek, lsedlacek@gbra.org,
