Eighteen brave volunteers turned out on Saturday (30th October) – despite the dire predictions of weather forecasters – to celebrate Grantham Rivercare’s 17th anniversary of cleaning the River Witham through Grantham,.
It was also their 109th effort.
Their motto that “it never rains on a RiverCare day!” was proven optimistic as they all got caught in a huge deluge halfway through the morning.
The driest person was Gary who spent the morning wading upstream!
Generally, the levels of litter were down on previous months, but they still managed a decent haul.
Our rogues’ gallery this time included a Zimmer frame, rotary washing line, footballs, tennis balls, an office chair and – no clean up would be complete without them – a couple of traffic cones!
It’s that time of year again and a couple of ‘industrial’ sized fireworks were recovered, which poses the question, where are the contents?
Well, what goes up must come down so our guess is polluting the river somewhere.
RiverCare BeachCare (East Anglia) is a Keep Britain Tidy project funded in our region by Anglian Water. Currently supporting 50 local community groups to litter pick, undertake citizen science projects and act as guardians of their local watercourse or beach.
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