CREEK TO BAY DAY 2006
THANK YOU!
The City of Oakland Public Works Agency wishes to thank to all the volunteers who participated to help make Creek to Bay Day 2005 a great success! Creek-to-Bay Day took place on Saturday, September 16, 2006, from 9:00 am - Noon as part of Coastal Cleanup Day
This year 1,030 volunteers participated in a range of projects at 20 locations around the City. As a result of everyone's efforts, 5 tons of trash were removed from Oakland's creeks and Lake Merritt, and 207 cubic yards of non-native green waste was removed from our riparian (creek) corridors to make way for native plants to flourish.
To help reduce the future amount of trash in our creeks, 250 storm drains were stenciled with the message "No Dumping, Drains to Bay (or Creek)" to remind people that our storm drains should carry only stormwater to our creeks and the San Francisco Bay.
The prize for the most unusual item found during the event, an antique electrical meter, went to a participant at the Leona Lodge cleanup location who won a gift certificate to Milano Restaurant.
Creek to Bay Day is held as part of international Coastal Cleanup Day and is sponsored in California by the California Coastal Commission. The statewide event turned out 50,375 volunteers who participated in picking up 839,745 pounds of trash and 105,140 pounds of recyclables!
A special thanks also goes to the community site coordinators who arranged for fantastic projects to take place at each of our staging locations and kept the day running smoothly. Oakland's event is sponsored by the City's Public Works Agency Environmental Services Division and Keep Oakland Clean and Beautiful Program. A big thank you also goes to our other event sponsors: the Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District and the East Bay Conservation Corps.
For more information about this event or to join the mailing list for announcements of this and other citywide creek cleanups, please contact the Watershed Coordinator at: watersheds@oaklandnet.com or call the Creek and Clean Water Information Number at (510) 238-6600.