People will notice litter booms placed at Salado Creek in Comanche and MLK Park this week. The floating devices are set to help catch floating trash without impacting wildlife. River Aid San Antonio, a nonprofit organization, has been instrumental in raising awareness about the trash littering our waterways.
River Aid San Antonio tackles litter problem with floating boomsThe nonprofit is now getting some help from the city, county and private companies to tackle the nasty litter problem.
Charley Blank, RASA Executive Director, said if the one-year pilot program to clear up the waterways works, there are plans to bring in more booms in the next few years. “If we can capture it earlier in it’s journey we’re able to consolidate our efforts and make it more efficient, we’re capturing that material before it spends too much time in the environment and starts to breakdown,” Girard said.
“Our waterways, they tell the story of our past, they are our present and our future. Without clean water you don’t have a community, without clean water you don’t have economic development,” Calvert said. Pointing out that controlling pollution in our waterways is also beneficial in preventing damaging floods in our communities.
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