Volunteers pick up trash along the Trinity River bank near Crystelle Waggoner Trailhead.
The 20th annual Trinity River Trash Bash, sponsored by the Tarrant Regional Water District, has come and gone and boy did we bash some trash! How much trash you ask? In two short hours volunteers collected 25 tires and 9.4 TONS of trash!
Over 1,800 groups, families and individuals signed up to come out bright and early Saturday morning to six different locations spread all across the Trinity Trails in Fort Worth to help beautify the Trinity River. A new location this year, the Crystelle Waggoner Trailhead off University Dr., was extremely successful. Over 500 volunteers helped clean-up that location and collected 103 bags of trash!
After the pick-up, volunteers headed over to Panther Island Pavilion in Trinity Uptown for an after party full of free food, door prizes and entertainment by Radio Disney. Over 20 prizes were awarded including the grand prize, an iPad2!
Trash Bash would not have been possible without help from generous sponsors Dr. Pepper/Snapple Group, Tarrant County Credit Union, Akzo Nobel, Little Caesars Pizza, Fort Worth Cats, City of Fort Worth, Star-Telegram, HDR, LAN, Trinity River Environmental Education Society (T.R.E.E.S.), Radio Disney, Ricca Chemical Company and Parsons Brinckerhoff.
Anyone interested in keeping the river clean throughout the year should visit the Adopt-A-River page or contact Rachel Navejar (817-335-2491) to learn more about becoming involved.