Re: NANFA-- ATTENTION OHIO NANFA!!

Robert Carillio (darterman_at_cboss.com)
Fri, 9 Aug 2002 21:33:31 -0500

Great story Rob!!! Now to me.. those arre the true super heros! That is
also amazing how much crap gets washed in the river. Sometimes it's from
floodwaters swiping things from properties... Anyway.. that was a classic
story! Anyone else ever catch someone in the act??> If sooo.. What would
you do to handle the situation>>>???.. Pass it on! :-)

Rob C.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Denkhaus, Robert" <DenkhaR_at_ci.fort-worth.tx.us>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 9:51 PM
Subject: RE: NANFA-- ATTENTION OHIO NANFA!!

> Rob C. wrote:
>
> > Yeah.. I
> > ve seen that too, Moon.. it's a shame, isn't it?.. Well, this
> > stream isn't
> > like that, thank goodness, but if we see cans.. bottles and
> > such, it always
> > makes NANFA look good to the property owner to try and leave
> > it better than
> > we found it. At least in terms of aesthesics... We do what
> > we can. I would
> > just love, if ONE time, I could catch someone dumping crap in
> > a stream...
>
> The Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge is located along the West Fork of
the
> Trinity River. Every year we have 1-2 river clean-ups. During the past
ten
> or so years, we have removed around 6,000 tires plus untold amounts of
other
> trash from the river. It's pretty amazing and people are always
commenting on
> how clean the waters of the Refuge are. Unfortunately, the next big rain
> brings down a ton more crap.
>
> Regarding actually witnessing someone dumping in the water... I vividly
> remember an event of my youth where my brother (10 years older than me)
and I
> were spending the day at Lake Lewisville (in the Dallas-Fort Worth area).
We
> watched a guy standing waist deep off shore finish his beer and then toss
the
> bottle into the water. My brother, not known for his environmental ethic
but
> generally a thoughtful and good human being, waded out into the water to
> retrieve the bottle. The offending young lad was just heading back
towards
> his lady friend on shore when my brother heaved the bottle as hard as he
could
> at the offender's a$$. The bottle, which had managed to fill to about
half
> full before my brother picked it up, was a direct hit and the resulting
> "thump" resounded along the beach. The litterbug was knowcked off his
feet
> but jumped up quickly only to come face to face with my brother, a 250
pound
> body builder, who said, "You don't litter in my lake." He made the guy
clean
> up every bit of debris along a 100 yard stretch of beach. It was quite a
show
> and I was immensely proud of my brother.
>
> Rob Denkhaus
> Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge

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