Nik Kennedy, community events coordinator for ‘I Love a Clean San Diego’, spearheads the Watershed Warriors Saturday cleanup.
“We identify unincorporated areas conducive to watershed environments that might otherwise be overlooked such as: preserves, hiking paths and greenbelts between commercial centers. We bring awareness to these often underappreciated areas by partnering with the local community to schedule a volunteer cleanup event,” he said.
Watershed Warriors facilitate events designed to assist outlying communities in reducing the amount of debris accumulated in their immediate watershed.
“For the cleanup event on Saturday, we anticipate around 50 people,” Kennedy said. “We will concentrate our efforts on the park behind the Alpine public library and those adjacent areas surrounding the Community Center. These boots-on-the-ground participants will look for trash not only in the park but at the baseball field, tennis and basketball courts, up to the fence that abuts Interstate Highway 8. This whole area accumulates a lot of rubble and drift debris from the highway.”
“The whole area around the Alpine Community Center constitutes a watershed and can use some real TLC before our rainy season begins,” Kennedy said.
“Participants can expect to be bending over and picking up remnants of broken and discarded rubble,” he said. “Disposable gloves and bags will be supplied along with grabbers for people to use. We love it when participants bring their own gloves, bags, and buckets to reduce the impact and promote a zero waste tolerance.”
For more details and how to participate contact Nik Kennedy at: nkennedy@cleansd.org or call (619)795-1060.
The event is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 3, 10 a.m. to noon at the Alpine Community Center, 1830 Alpine Blvd.