2010 Great American Cleanup was Saturday, 

April 24, 2010

Springfield Township takes part annually in Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup, the nation's largest community improvement program. Activities on April 24th included beautifying parks and recreation areas, handling recycling collections, picking up litter, and planting trees and flowers.

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!

Completed Projects:

Litter Clean Up:

• Intersection of Winton and Galbraith (7 Bags of trash collected)

• Intersection of Hamilton Ave. and Meredith

• Intersection of North Bend & Winton (2  bags of trash & 1 bag of recyclable materials collected!)

• 24 signs removed from utility poles

• Winton Road – Galbraith to Compton (4 bags of trash collected)

• Creek area at Schottelkotte Park

• Hamilton Avenue – Roosevelt to Seven Hills Drive (3 bags of trash collected - project not complete)

• Crutchfield Park & Neighborhood area (5 bags of trash collected)

• Compton - Winton to Daly (7 bags of trash collected)

•  Locust Street and creek

• Hillside Park creek area

• Compton – Vine Street to Locust (2 bags of trash collected)

• Vine Street

• Daly – North Bend to North College Hill Boundary

• Sirius (11 bags of trash collected from the creek area)

• Lakeridge (6 Bags of trash ans 2 bags of recyclable materials collected!)

• Cross County on and off ramps (6 bags of trash collected)

• Area around Welch Elementary

• Intersection of Broadhurst and Blackhawk

• Greenbelt behind and around the Pleasant Run Farms Pool (18 bags of trash collected in Pleasant Run Farms Area)

• Greenbelt Area Off Hazelgrove

• Smiley Cemetery

• Two Resident Homes (St. Bartholomew Team)

• St. Claire's Convent (St. Bartholomew Team)

  Brentwood Park Project:    (53 volunteers!)

• Two new picnic benches

• Drain system under the swing set

• Rust removed and painted swings & slide

•  Added bat houses for mosquito control

• Cleaned debris from the creek (12 bags of trash collected)

• Projects still in progress: Players benches to be fixed, landscape around entry sign, paint trash cans

West College Hill Major Project:

• Took down and removed shed at West College Hill Neighborhood Services Center (Collected 8 bags of trash)

•  Residents filled one dumpster

Tire Recycling Project:

• 108 tires collected

Flower Beds:

• Planted flowers at the Senior Center

• Replaced mulch around the senior center

• Planted two large flower pots on Winton Road

• New landscape plan on Winton Road, between Admin & Strip Mall still to be completed

Cottonwood Elementary Project:

• School cut down four dumpsters full of honeysuckle bushes prior to event.

• Volunteers cleared debris from neighborhood creek ans helped to dig out honeysuckel roots

Projects That Still Need To Be Done:

• Creek area behind Frost Elementary School

• Wooded Area on Ruth Ave.

• Creek area on Hamilton Ave. near Meredith

• Walking path in WCH – Simpson Ave. to Banning Rd.