Sioux Falls Whitewater Park Nonprofit Organization had a beautiful day to clean up the Big Sioux River yesterday 9-21-15. A group of seven began at 6:00 pm in Rotary Park Sioux Falls SD (corner of Southeastern Avenue and 26Th Street). We kayaked up The Big Sioux River cleaning up the banks and trees of trash. We paddled up about 1.11 river miles to the Pasley Park bike trail bridge and worked our way back to Rotary Park. We got a good amount of trash but we believe the 8-27-15 big rains may have washed most of the trash downstream. On the west side of the river we followed Leif Ericson Day Camp and on the east side followed the Sioux Falls bike trail. We were lucky with high 70’s and the wind died down by the time we got on the water. The mosquitos were a little bad but nothing we couldn’t handle. We had a great time cleaning up and ended the clean up right before dusk. We hope this encourages more people to volunteer to help clean our rivers. Many of use this water way and we need to keep it clean for our future paddlers and adventures.
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| Might have a start at our river trash Halloween costume! |
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