Too Much Trash
Hundreds of volunteers turned out to pick up trash March 31 during River Rescue 2012. This event, organized by Ijams Nature Center and in its 23rd year, is an annual attempt to keep our shorelines and waterways free of trash and debris. Breck, Rusty and I filled garbage bags at Ned McWherter Park and IC …
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Drive through some of the area’s subdivisions and developments. What appears to be a pond, basin, or ditch may be an engineered stormwater structure designed to control flooding and keep pollutants out of our creeks and rivers. Routine tasks we don’t think twice about generate those pollutants. What happens to the fertilizer washed out of …
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