5 days on the Raritan river:

[AndyS]

I've heard of binge drinking but recently discovered a thing called binge cleaning. This is how the last 5 days on the Raritan river played out.
Feb.1: Cleaned the river banks and floodplain area from the Headgates in Duke Island Park down to Robert. St.
Feb.2: Cleaned the river banks area in Orlando park in Raritan Borough and both sides of the Nevius St. bridge area and walked the banks up to the entrance of the Raritan River Greenway.
Feb.3: Went into the Peters Brook area in Somerville and cleaned in there.
Feb.4: Ray joined me and we cleaned along the river and floodplain from Robert St. to the entrance of the Raritan River Greenway.
Feb.5 Jens and I did a small section of Duke Park in Manville near the river.
The majority of the time I was able to lug the garbage up to the trash receptacles where I sorted the trash and disposed of it. I started getting backed up as I had accrued too much trash and starting filling up the back of my truck. I was going to go a day 6 along the Torpey section of the river in Bridgewater but my truck is full so it will have to wait. Many thanks to those who came out and joined me. Couldn't have done this if there were 2 feet of snow on the ground, taking advantage of that during this winter. Most spots never spending more than 3 hours at any given location. No ticks on me so far and I found a dollar bill at Nevius St. so I came out ahead. Didn't take many photos over the 5 day period of cleaning.