On Saturday, October 4, members of the Friends of the Atchafalaya, along with Keep Iberville Beautiful and the Parish Solid Waste Department spent the morning picking up litter and abandoned trash at the Bayou Sorrell boat landings, both inside and outside of the East Atchafalaya Protection Levee, just north of the Bayou Sorrell Locks. The group of about a dozen volunteers plus representatives from the Parish President’s office collected loose trash and passed out litter sacks to boaters at the landings. The Bayou Sorrell landings are generally in pretty good shape because of Iberville Parish attention to the problem and because a larger dumpster has been placed at the landing for use by boaters.

Thanks to Iberville Parish and Keep Iberville Beautiful for partnering with the Friends on this event.

The Bayou Sorrell event was the first of several planned around the Basin in the coming months. If you want to get involved, watch these pages and the www.basinbuddies.org web site for information or contact us and suggest a location around the Basin that you would like to be included for a cleanup. We hope to work with the Atchafalaya Heritage Area on future projects. John Clark of Keep Iberville Beautiful has suggested a “Camp Clean-up Day”, when camp owners can bring trash out to boat landings around the Basin for pickup by each Parish. Send us your ideas.

Here are some pictures of the Bayou Sorrell event. Put your cursor over each picture to see the caption. Click on a picture to see it larger.