Pinellas Seeks Cleanup Volunteers For Cross Bayou Canal, Joe's Creek

PINELLAS PARK, FL – Pinellas County is looking for some help from the community to clean two of its waterways.

In partnership with Keep Pinellas Beautiful, the county is calling for volunteers to help clean the Cross Bayou Canal and Joe’s Creek on Saturday, March 25 from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Participants will collect and bag trash from mangrove shorelines.

Volunteers can participate either on the land or on the water from a canoe or kayak. Volunteers can bring their own watercraft or borrow a canoe, provided on a first-come, first-serve basis.

The meeting point for the cleanup will be the Pinellas County property located at the intersection of 70th Avenue North and 78th Street North near the Wagon Wheel Flea Market on Park Boulevard in Pinellas Park.

Check-in for volunteers begins at 8 a.m. with trash collection taking place from 8:30 to 11 a.m. After the trash collection, volunteers are invited to stay for lunch, provided by the Florida Section of American Waterworks Association, and can enter to win giveaways.

Pinellas County have recommended that volunteers wear comfortable clothing, closed-toe shoes, work gloves, a hat and sunscreen. Also, volunteers should bring a chair or towel to sit on during lunch.

Trash grabbers, bags, gloves and drinking water will be provided. A water truck will be on-hand for cleaning off watercraft after returning to shore.

Participants working from watercraft will be required to wear life jackets. Volunteers who borrow watercraft will be provided life jackets.

Registration is required by Wednesday, March 21. To register online, visit https://2017springcbc.eventbrite.com/.

Photography provided courtesy of Pinellas County Communications Department