Bay clean-up remove two tonnes of rubbish
Twenty-one Brisbane Water Secondary College Woy Woy and Umina campus students removed 2260kg of rubbish in a clean-up of the eastern foreshore of Woy Woy Bay on Wednesday, March 27.
The students were also filmed as they cleaned up the litter by Tangaroa Blue and the Australian Marine Institute for a documentary film.
"This area has had three prior field trips removing litter," said coordinator Mr Graham Johnston.
"Previous flooding rain deposited large amounts of residential litter, washed into the Bay from sites including the storm water drain at Correa Bay.
"Large amounts of small items were uncovered from beneath dead sea grass including plastic lids and wrappings.
"There was an abundance of plastic bottles found consistently along this foreshore with a total of 1250 collected and 300 beer bottles found stacked south of the train station.
"Furniture was also removed from near the jetty.
"Metal railway line plates were removed along with a railway signal metre.
"The saltmarsh area on Pelican Island revealed plenty of small litter on the tide marks and the northern foreshore mangroves, surveyed the day prior, revealed plenty of oyster products, a total of 176 baskets and trays, as well as a television and bulk rubber products.
A total of 95 full bags were retrieved by the boats with 5273 individual items collected.
"It was an amazing task completed by the volunteer students, teaching staff, oyster growers and boat drivers," said Mr Johnston.
Email, 2 Apr 2013
Graham Johnston, MacMasters Beach