Clean up on Saturday, April 22
Compiled by Roxanne Ochoa, volunteer site coordinator

Clean-up locations: King Fisher Beach – Port O’Connor & Sunday Beach – Matagorda Island in Calhoun County

Distance of coastline cleaned: 1 mile. Number of volunteers: 19 (14 adults, 5 children)

Inland collection total: 6 small bags = 72 lbs (estimated). Island collection total: 13 large bags = 325 lbs (estimated).

Items mostly collected – plastic beverage bottles (299), plastic bottle caps (202), pieces of plastic less than one-inch diameter (128), cigarette butts (86), food wrappers (76) and aluminum beverage cans (76). Unusual items found – dinosaur toy cap, plastic toy tree, pair of goggles, pizza delivery sign, silicon rubber plug
Items of local concern – steel float on beach and glass around picnic tables (beachgoer safety), plastic confetti & Easter eggs (wildlife/environmental impact).

Please join us for our upcoming beach cleanup on Saturday, September 23rd, part of the Coastwide Fall Cleanup! Come on out to help keep our beaches looking great, get your collectible iron-on patch, and have a hotdog on us (L’Roy and my dad are pitching in)!

Good Adopt-A-Beach Turn-out

County Agent Rhonda Cummins reports less trash to pick up at Magnolia Beach this spring than there was last year (3,780 pounds last year; 1,820 pounds this year. She attributes this to the increased trash pickups (twice per week) since Precinct 1 Commissioner David Hall took office in January.

One hundred, thirty-four volunteers turned out for the annual spring clean up. The most unusual items found were a can of mace, back seat from a van, and old life jackets.

Thanks to all who volunteered for the Spring Adopt-A-Beach. If you’d like to help out in the fall clean-up, check www.glo.texas.gov/adopt-a-beach for date and locations.

Magnolia Beach Adopt-A-Beach Clean-up