. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Photo by Edgerton and Beautification, is unprepared for what volunteers find on the banks of the Cape Fear. It's nearing the end of the cleanup, and the motorboats and canoes con- gregate around a steep bank littered with a water heater, a bathtub and a bicycle. Some people around me suggest we might be able to haul some of the junk back. But when volunteer Ron Potter follows the trail of debris up the more than 50-foot bank, he finds a dump site laden with household and electrical waste, appliances a
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Photo by Edgerton and Beautification, is unprepared for what volunteers find on the banks of the Cape Fear. It's nearing the end of the cleanup, and the motorboats and canoes con- gregate around a steep bank littered with a water heater, a bathtub and a bicycle. Some people around me suggest we might be able to haul some of the junk back. But when volunteer Ron Potter follows the trail of debris up the more than 50-foot bank, he finds a dump site laden with household and electrical waste, appliances and furniture. Another dump site is a few yards away. Potter opens a bag from a recent deposit of household garbage searching for an address. "I think a lot of it was what I had expected to find," says Morriss. "But I don't think I expected to find an illegal dump ; Morriss says she will report the dumps to the county health de- Through cleanups such as The Big Sweep and by regular monitoring of the water in the Cape Fear, people are able to be watchdogs for the environment, says Bill Merritt, who recently applied to join the state's Streamwatch program. Merritt says volunteers affiliated with the program blew the whistle last year on a local feed company that was dumping raw sewage and chicken parts into the river. Photographs of the dump site are taken, and the group prepares to head upriver. Now horsepower takes over and the paddlers get a chance to rest. The powerboaters throw out their towlines and the canoeists take hold. Back at the landing, the volunteers get out data cards and tally the trash collected. There are some 30 bags in the piles and a mound of tires and rims. "That was just a dent, but I guess you've got to start somewhere," says Bill Merritt. â Big Sweep Leader Wants to By Edgerti Change Attitudes She woke up September 22 with trash on her mind. It was 6 As Big Sweep regional coordinator Diane Warrende
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