Great American Cleanup Results

Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup, the nation's largest annual community improvement program, brings the power of 3.8 million volunteers and participants to create local change. Volunteers donated more than 5.2 million hours to clean, beautify and improve more than 16,500 communities during more than 30,600 events in all 50 states and beyond. The Great American Cleanup in Springfield Township held its cleanup on two days, Saturday, May 11, 2013 and on Saturday March 30th. Volunteers participated in our twelfth annual event by beautifying parks and recreation areas, cleaning creeks, picking up litter, planting trees and flowers, improving community gateways and removing graffiti.

 

Check - In Locations and Rain Plan: If you are volunteering for a project in the Pleasant Run Farms neighborhood, check-in will be held at 8:30 a.m. at the Swim Club, located at 11955 Elkwood. All other volunteers should check in at the Springfield Township Fire Department, located at 9150 Winton Road, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Check-in will be held rain or shine. This is where you will select your volunteer assignments and receive a t-shirt (while available to first come-first serve) and supplies. We will work in light rain. If there is heavy rain, you can complete your project anytime before Monday, May 20th at 8:00a.m. Please text your results and trash pick up locations to (513)678-9405.

Springfield Township's Great American Cleanup Projects:

Litter Projects Clean Up

 

High Traffic Areas:

Winton Road (Galbraith to Compton)

Winton and Galbraith intersection - Galbraith in both directions

Hamilton Avenue (several teams needed)

Compton Road, Between Winton & Daly

Locust, Vine and Caldwell

North Bend (Greenfield to Center Hill  then Winton to Bilamy)

Ronald Regan On & Off Ramps

 

Low Traffic Areas:

McKelvey & Lakeridge

West College Hill

Brentwood Swim Club and Cottonwood School

Wes College Hill Neighborhood Service Center and neighboring streets

 

 

Creeks:

Creek on Sirius

Helwig Park and Creek - DONE BY FAA IN APRIL

Lexington Heights Park and Creek

Hillside Park and Creek - - DONE BY FAA IN APRIL

Brentwood Park and Creek

Frost Park & Creek, Roosevelt

Schottelkotte Park & Creek

 

The Grove

planters at Senior Center, plant flowers at Grove Hall

Plant flowers in front of Civic Center

 

Adopt A Flower Pot  *commit to plant, & water the planter through the summer

- Helwig, Schottelkotte, Lexington Heights Park, Fire Station,

Paint Picnic Tables:  To Be Determined

Planting Trees 

- 300 saplings to be planted at Brentwood Park and Schottelkotte Park

Pleasant Run Farms Litter Clean Up

• Kemper Road from Mill to Hamilton
• Greenbelt area of Broadhurst
• Ballfields at Welch Elementary
• Greenbelt Area off of Hazelgrove
• Greenbelt area behind the pool fence line

 

 Pleasant Run Farms Community Gateways – Project :

            • Plant flowers, weed and mulch the Memorial Flag Pole, signs, concession stand

 

*Suggest a new project by calling 522-1410.

 

Number of Volunteers: 160

Number of Hours Worked: 480 hours

Number of Community Groups Who Participated: 6

Bags of Litter and Debris Collected: 223 bags!

Estimated pounds of large Unbagged Debris: 450 lbs

Items Pulled From Creeks & Wooded Areas: 5 tires, 4 bikes, grill, 14 metal rods, gutter, garden hose, 2 wooden chairs, couch frame, metal picnic table, bench press, car parts, hub caps, 1 grocery cart (5 found but the creeks were to high), 1 roll of carpet, 15 paint buckets, siding, lawn chair, swingset slide, fire pit ring

Removed: 150 feet of 20-year-old split rail fencing

Planted: 150 flowers at 5 community gateway sign areas

Landscape Projects: Clifford George Memorial (Community gateway), Clifford George Concession Stand (Gateway), and The Grove Banquet Hall (rentals benefit the day-to-day operations of the senior center)

Painted: 15 picnic tables (Removed grafitti)

Stained: 3 Community Message Boards

Helped 4 Senior Adults with yard work (and cleaned out one garage for a senior in need)

 

2010  RESULTS
What an amazing day! Thank you to everyone who volunteered in our 9th year in participating with the Great American Cleanup.

Total Number of Volunteers: 178

Bags of Trash: 119

Tires Recycled: 108

Items we pulled out of the creeks: A Refrigerator Door, A Grocery Cart, A Golf Club, A Bike, A Swing Set, Wonderboard, A Bike Rack, Construction Materials, A Doll Stroller, A Basketball, A Soccer Goal Post, Chain Link Fence Pieces, and a 4x4 Sheet Of Plywood!