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West Branch of the Housatonic River in Pittsifled BEFORE cleanup

BEFORE

Pittsfield River Cleanup
May 3, 2008
9am - 1pm

Meet at Wahconah Park
(Wahconah St., Pittsfield, MA)

2007 River Clean Ups
June 2, 9, & 10
below

same location AFTER cleanup

AFTER
BEAT organizes or helps to organize a number of river clean-ups each year.
Contact us if you would like to be part of our next clean-up, or maybe even organize your own.

2007 Berkshire County River Cleanups

This year we helped with 3 Berkshire County River Cleanups as part of National Rivers Cleanup Week.

Sheffield - On Saturday, June 2, we put our canoes and kayaks in at Kellogg Road in Sheffield and paddled down to the covered bridge, pulling out trash along the way. This clean up was organized by the Sheffield Land Trust in conjunction with the Housatonic Valley Association. Along the way the BEAT team pulled out a "Don't Eat the Fish - PCB Contamination" sign, among other things. We also stopped to take pictures of mussles. See pictures of the June 2nd Sheffield River Cleanup and Paddle

Great Barrington - On Saturday, June 9th, we met at the boat launch on Brookside Road in Great Barrington and followed the riverbank down East Sheffield Road. This cleanup was organized by the Great Barrington Conservation Commission with the Housatonic Valley Association and BEAT. See pictures of the June 9th Great Barrington cleanup.

Pittsfield - On Sunday, June 10th, we met at Wahconah Park in Pittsfield. The Mayor, James Ruberto, came out to thank us and wish us good luck. He had highschool graduations to speak at, so could not join the mucky fun. State Senator Ben Downing and At-Large Pittsfield City Councilor Matt Kerwood both dug in and hauled stuff out of the river near the Wahconah Street bridge by the Pittsfield Cemetery. This cleanup was organized by the Housatonic Valley Association and BEAT with help from the Housatonic River Initiative and Housatonic River Museum. See pictures of the June 10th Pittsfield cleanups.

National River Cleanup Week, is presented by American Rivers, and kicks off a series of community-based stream cleanups nationwide beginning the week of June 2-10, 2007. This popular annual event raises public awareness of the magnitude of trash accumulating in our nation's waterways. Local volunteers will be participating along with tens of thousands of volunteers taking part in hundreds of cleanups across the country to remove trash from local rivers and streams.

See previous cleanups

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THANK YOU EVERYBODY!

To all of the people who helped in the clean-ups. We couldn't do it without you.

Thank you to Housatonic Valley Association (HVA), Sheffield Land Trust, Great Barrington Conservation Commission, Pittsfield Conservation Commission, the potential Housatonic River Museum, and Housatonic River Initiative (HRI). Thank you to the Pittsfield Parks Department for for trucking away all of the trash collected in Pittsfield. Thank you to American Rivers and National River Cleanup Week for providing a national website, trashbags, incentives, etc.

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