Volunteers Collect 1,500 Pounds Of Trash On Oconee County Side of McNutt Creek

Fifty-one volunteers this morning collected and hauled out an estimated 1,500 pounds of trash from the Oconee County side of McNutt Creek in a small area near the Macon Highway bridge over the creek.

The volunteers were recruited and organized by the Keep Oconee County Beautiful Commission as part of the state Rivers Alive Cleanup, a program of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division.

The volunteers, including a large number of Boy Scouts from Troop 65 in Snellville, picked up trash beneath and around the bridge and for about a quarter mile upstream to where Barber Creek joins with McNutt Creek.

The collected materials included 19 trash bags of recyclables, 15 trash bags of simple litter and refuse, 15 tires, and about 150 pounds of loose materials.

For more on this story, including pictures of the area of the cleanup, go to Oconee County Observations.