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Taft River Dock Emergency Cleanup Report

Written by vincep | Jan 6, 2015 3:20:23 AM
Check out the report from the Taft Dock Rapid Response Cleanup. Massive kudos to all the volunteers and lead responder Vince Pappalardo for their efforts!
Taft Dock Cleanup, December 28th, 2014
7 People removed and/or staged for removal 4300 lbs of debris in 4 hours

This was a clean up on the North and South sides on the Salishan Spit.  7 Volunteers worked both the North and South sides of the Spit for 4 hours.     About 300 lbs of debris were removed from the volunteers into a Park Rangers truck and trailer that day.  The debris mostly comprised of wood and Styrofoam from river dock docks and some general debris.   A 8ft x 20ft section of a river dock was found and determined to be too large to be removed by manual means.  So, a salvage crew with a backhoe and dump truck was called and removed the estimated 2000 lbs of dock section that morning during the clean up.  On the South more remote side of the Spit, volunteers located and moved to above the tide lines and in piles as much as possible more river dock debris, a  tire with rim, a water heater, and general debris totaling another estimated 2000 lbs.  Later in the week park rangers with ATV's removed the debris for the remote South Spit.

Participants:  Bill McCaun, Karen Dichari, Parker Ogoburn, Representative David Gomburg, a Taft Local Resident (if you are him and want name recognition please contact Vince), Vince Pappalardo
Bill McCaun adds a tire to the pile