The Northeast Florida Association of Realtors is hosting its Waterway Clean-up on Saturday, July 27, from 9 to 11 a.m. at six sites in Northeast Florida. The public is invited to attend.
All participants will receive a t-shirt, and be supplied with gloves, grabbers, trash bags and buckets with the goal of collecting 10,000 pounds of garbage from areas in the region that feed into Northeast Florida’s waterways. All participants are invited to a party after the clean-up, which will be held at the NEFAR Resource Center, 7801 Deercreek Club Road, in Jacksonville.
Locations for the clean-up on July 27 will be:
- Black Creek Marina (aka Knights Marine Boat Ramp) 1470 River Lane (off HWY 17) Green Cove Springs
- Wayne B. Stevens Boat Ramp, 4555 Ortega Farms Blvd., Jacksonville, 32210
- Bert Maxwell Boat Ramp and road leading to the area, 500 Maxwell Road, Jacksonville, 32218
- Sidney Geffen Park (North Riverwalk area between Riverside Arts Market and the Landing), 505 Alfred Dupont Place, Jacksonville, 32202
- Friendship Fountain area of the South Riverwalk, 1015 Museum Circle, Jacksonville, 32207
- Lions Club Boat Ramp, 4322 Richard Denby Gatlin Rd., Jacksonville, 32277.
Snacks and water will be available at all six locations.
A convoy of boats will also meet at the Lions Club Boat Ramp in Arlington and make its way to Goat Island, areas near JaxPort and underneath the Mathews Bridge to clean-up areas that are not easily accessible by land. Members of the public who wish to join the convoy should expect to meet around 8 a.m. in the waters near the boat ramp.
NEFAR kicked off the first portion of its annual Clean-up Florida Waterways event by collecting 1,000 pounds of trash from the waterways in Putnam County earlier this month. The Putnam County event was the first of three events comprising this years’ Waterways Clean-up and part of NEFAR’s Inaugural Trash Challenge. Thr Trash Challenge runs through Aug. 1, and will award prizes to those who collect the most trash. For more information, click here.
