. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. 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 pa
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. 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 Warrender sipped on her first cup of coffee, she thought of her 20 cleanup sites in the Carteret County area. In her mind, she traced the day's planned agenda: ⢠Stop at McDonald's to pick up donated orange drink for volunteers. ⢠Drive to Pivers Island to put up Big Sweep signs. ⢠Meet Ranger Mike Rickart at the Fort Macon State Park cleanup site. ⢠Drive to the landing to check on the 90 or more folks who were shov- ing off to clean up Cape Lookout and Shackleford Banks. Then she stopped. An hour and a half had passed since she'd first opened her eyes. There was no time left to daydream. The day would work itself out. Barring bad weather, Big Sweep '90 would be a success. Months of planning would pay off in one four- hour stretch. Hundreds of volunteers would clean as much of North Caro- lina's central beaches as possible. Diane Warrender was ready to hit the
Size: 1291px × 1935px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookcollectionunclibra, booksubjectoceanography
