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Rockdale Boy Scouts help in Rivers Alive clean up

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As of Wednesday, December 14, 2011
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From left to right: Andrew Bonar, Raymond Hudson and Ryan Gaylor of local Boy Scout Troop 410 pull out a tire from the South River during October's annual Rivers Alive community clean up. The boys' troop worked a section of the South River near the Lorraine Trailhead at Ga. Highway 138. The boys were among the 250 volunteers who participated in the event hosted by Rockdale County's Storm Water Management Division. Volunteers removed 8.5 tons of garbage from county waterways. The garbage collected included 74 tires that will be recycled and 693 garbage bags. Parks, schools, retention ponds, lakes and rivers were cleaned.

From left to right: Andrew Bonar, Raymond Hudson and Ryan Gaylor of local Boy Scout Troop 410 pull out a tire from the South River during October's annual Rivers Alive community clean up. The boys' troop worked a section of the South River near the Lorraine Trailhead at Ga. Highway 138. The boys were among the 250 volunteers who participated in the event hosted by Rockdale County's Storm Water Management Division. Volunteers removed 8.5 tons of garbage from county waterways. The garbage collected included 74 tires that will be recycled and 693 garbage bags. Parks, schools, retention ponds, lakes and rivers were cleaned.

Andrew Bonar, Raymond Hudson and Ryan Gaylor of local Boy Scout Troop 410 pull out a tire from the South River during October's annual Rivers Alive community clean up.

The boys' troop worked a section of the South River near the Lorraine Trailhead at Ga. Highway 138. The boys were among the 250 volunteers who participated in the event hosted by Rockdale County's Storm Water Management Division.

Volunteers removed 8.5 tons of garbage from county waterways. The garbage collected included 74 tires that will be recycled and 693 garbage bags. Parks, schools, retention ponds, lakes and rivers were cleaned.

Below is a round up of the Oct. 22 clean up event, according to the Storm Water Management Division.

• Approximately 250 volunteers

• 8.54 tons of garbage removed from the County

• 693 garbage bags collected by volunteers

• 74 tires recycled

• 8.5 miles of waterways cleaned throughout the County

Nineteen locations cleaned:

• Commercial properties: detention ponds at Burlington Coat Factory, Lowes, & Chick-fil-a.

• Subdivisions: Fieldstone View, Country Walk, Shadow Lake, Shady Grove, Lakeview Estates and Huntington Creek.

• Parks: Bonner, South Hicks, Pine Log and Black Shoals.

• Schools: General Ray Davis Middle, Lorraine Elementary, Rockdale High, Eastminster.

• Illegal dump sites

• Yellow River (Private residence with access)

• South River (Old junkyard for Lorraine Trailhead)

• Randy Poynter Reservoir

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