What a busy month for Table Rock Lake Water Quality! We started this month with a bang and held our annual Table Rock Lake Shoreline Clean-up. I worked with the Stone County Fire Department and picked up trash with these folks. We cleaned up at Aunt’s Creek Park and picked up over 15 bags of trash. Luckily there were no big pieces of trash like appliances or tires. It seems after 10 years of this event we are making headway on the trash around Table Rock Lake. Volunteers commented that they didn’t pick up as much trash as they had in previous years! Here are some numbers (they will be increase as we receive the reports): 800+ volunteers, 1200+ bags of trash, 14 tons of trash, 300 tires, and over 200 miles of shoreline cleaned up! A successful event! Thanks to all of the volunteers for making this happen!
Table Rock Lake Water Quality also participated in the Earth Day Celebration at the Shepherd of the Hills Fish Hatchery in Branson on April 17. Participants were able to learn about new green ideas from various booths and were also able to tour the fish hatchery all for free! TRLWQ educated about our projects and I entertained the kids with live aquatic macroinvertebrates. It was great to hand out information to the kids about identifying insects that they could take home and apply their knowledge. We talked about the different pollution sensitivities of the insects and they noticed a different between the two boxes. One box had a lower water quality rating than the other. It was a great day!
Table Rock Lake Water Quality also participated in the Earth Day Celebration at the Shepherd of the Hills Fish Hatchery in Branson on April 17. Participants were able to learn about new green ideas from various booths and were also able to tour the fish hatchery all for free! TRLWQ educated about our projects and I entertained the kids with live aquatic macroinvertebrates. It was great to hand out information to the kids about identifying insects that they could take home and apply their knowledge. We talked about the different pollution sensitivities of the insects and they noticed a different between the two boxes. One box had a lower water quality rating than the other. It was a great day!
We will be posting more pictures from Shoreline Cleanup on our Facebook page shortly! Stay tuned!
Table Rock Lake Water Quality, Inc.
http://www.trlwq.org/
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