Fall Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup held at 13 Coastwide Sites
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas As we continue to recover from Hurricane Harvey all of us need to volunteer and pitch in. This Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup was another great step in that direction 
said Texas General Land Office Commissioner George P. Bush following last weekends 31st Annual Fall Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup.
Yes the results for Saturdays 31st Fall Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup by the Texas General Land Office are in. (See results below.) And despite fewer cleanup sites than usual due to damage from Hurricane Harvey 5046 volunteers showed up at 13 locations to remove 80528 pounds of trash from 55 miles of Texas coastline.
Over the past month weve seen Texans come together in the wake of Hurricane Harvey said Commissioner Bush. I was proud to see that continue this past weekend with Texans from all across our great state helping clean the coast.
Since 1986 more than 517000 Adopt-A-Beach volunteers have cleaned more than 9500 tons of trash from Texas beaches.
Cigarette butts beer cans and plastic bags were among the most common items found. But with each cleanup plenty of odd and unusual items inevitably are reported. Saturdays list of strange items found on Texas beaches was no different and included:
- Boat battery
- Buoy
- Car battery
- Car bumper
- Clothes hangers
- Electrical wires
- Fence post
- Glow sticks
- Golf club head
- Hard hat
- Helmet
- Makeup brush
- Mattress
- Nerf football
- Patio furniture
- Pile of Styrofoam
- Rusted boat ladder
- Shotgun shells
- Tires
- Toilet
- Toilet brush
- Toilet seats
- Toys
- Tricycle seat
- Truck radiator
- TV
- Wool blanket
The Texas General Land Office Adopt-A-Beach program is an all-volunteer effort to remove trash from Texas shores. Coastal cleanups are held three times each year and the programs success is due to the hard work of volunteers including local coordinators who work many unpaid hours publicizing the cleanups in coastal communities.
The next coastwide cleanup will be the Spring Cleanup set for Saturday April 21 2018.
The South Padre Island Winter Texan Cleanup is set for Friday February 9
th and the Coastal Bend Winter Cleanup is set for Saturday February 10
th.
Adopt-A-Beach volunteers record data on the trash they find to learn more about the causes of marine debris and help mitigate pollution along Texas 367 miles of coastline.
To learn more about the Adopt-A-Beach program visit
www.TexasAdoptABeach.org or contact the GLO at 1-877-TX COAST. Like us on Facebook at
Facebook.com/TexasAdoptABeach and follow us on Twitter
@TXAdoptABeach.
| COUNTY |
CLEANUP SITE |
MILES CLEANED |
VOLUNTEERS |
POUNDS |
| Brazoria |
Surfside Beach (canceled) |
|
|
|
| Quintana Bryan Beach (canceled due to Harvey) |
|
|
|
| County Total |
|
|
|
| Calhoun |
Port Lavaca Magnolia Beach (Bay) - (canceled) |
|
|
|
| Boggy Nature Park (Bay) |
1 |
47 |
795 |
| Port O Connor King Fisher Beach (Bay) |
0.5 |
35 |
780 |
| County Total |
1.5 |
82 |
1575 |
| Cameron |
South Padre Island - County Beaches |
5 |
1838 |
15325 |
| South Padre Island - City Beaches |
3 |
83 |
725 |
| Boca Chica |
7 |
521 |
13160 |
| County Total |
15 |
2442 |
29210 |
| Chambers |
Chambers County (canceled) |
|
|
|
| County Total |
|
|
|
| Galveston |
Bolivar Peninsula (canceled) |
|
|
|
| Galveston Island |
19 |
1447 |
14172 |
| John M. O Quinn 1-45 Estuarial Corridor (Bay) (canceled) |
|
|
|
| Texas City Prairie Preserve - (Bay) |
2.25 |
110 |
10700 |
| County Total |
21 |
1557 |
24872 |
| Harris |
Morgans Point (Bay) |
1.5 |
100 |
1824 |
| County Total |
1.5 |
100 |
1824 |
| Jefferson |
McFaddin Beach (canceled) |
|
|
|
| Sea Rim State Park |
2.5 |
139 |
1872 |
| County Total |
2.5 |
139 |
1872 |
| Kleberg and Nueces |
Baffin Bay (Bay) |
1 |
42 |
425 |
| Padre Island National Seashore |
8 |
167 |
9525 |
| Port Aransas (canceled) |
|
|
|
| St. Jo Island (canceled) |
|
|
|
| Mustang Island State Park (canceled) |
|
|
|
| North Corpus Christi Beach (Bay) |
9.5 |
308 |
6000 |
| Cole Park (Bay) (canceled) |
|
|
|
| Packery Flats (Bay) (canceled) |
|
|
|
| North Padre Island |
8.9 |
209 |
5225 |
| Aransas Pass (Bay) (canceled) |
|
|
|
| County Total |
27.4 |
726 |
21175 |
| Matagorda |
Sargent Beach (canceled) |
|
|
|
| Matagorda Beach (canceled) |
|
|
|
| Palacios (Bay) (canceled) |
|
|
|
| County Total |
|
|
|
| Refugio |
Austwell Pier (Bay) (canceled) |
|
|
|
|
County Total |
|
|
|
| San Patricio |
Sunset Lake Park Portland (Bay) - (canceled) |
|
|
|
|
County Total |
|
|
|
| TOTAL |
FALL 2017 |
69 |
5046 |
80528 |
