Little Falls Watershed Alliance takes second place in Montgomery Parks for the number of volunteers engaged in picking up trash - over 1,000 hours of service by 392 volunteers! Only one other watershed group in the County reached the 1,000 hours mark.
We picked up 5, 863 pounds of trash, including 2 tires and 419 pounds of oversized trash (a couple of shopping carts too.) And hosted 19 clean-ups. These include our monthly clean-ups at Little Falls Branch and two “all watershed clean-ups” at various sites around the watershed.
Most impressive is that we did this all despite being the smallest of the County watersheds. Montgomery Parks tracks the trash reduction efforts of five watershed groups in the county. The watersheds they steward range from small, at 9.5 square miles the Little Falls is the smallest, to quite large - the Rock Creek watershed is over 34 square miles in Montgomery County. And while we didn’t pick up the most trash, in the 18 years that we have been tracking our trash clean-up efforts, we have totaled more than 75,000 pounds. That’s trash data to brag about!
