Report on Clean Seattle Initiative
Cleanup: Beacon Hill Community
Date of Cleanup: February 17, 2007
On Saturday, February 17, 2007, Mayor Greg Nickels
led more than ninety (90) volunteers as they cleaned and greened the Beacon
Hill Community. Participants from Van Asselt students and staff South Beacon
Hill Neighborhood Council, Filipino American Veterans Association, New Holly
Neighborhood Association, African American Academy, Chinese Baptist Church
Boy Scouts (Beacon Hill Troops), Cleveland High School, Franklin High School,
Bethany United Church of Christ, and King County Juveniles’ program
collected litter and removed dead leaves.
Community Representatives and Mayor Nickels planted a tree along Beacon
Avenue . The Department of Neighborhoods, Office of Emergency Management,
Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle Parks and Recreation, the Department
of Corrections, Seattle City Light and Seattle Public Utilities also assisted
in the effort. The clean up area is bounded by Beacon Ave Median from S. Graham
St to the North to S. Holden St. on the South with additional project areas
to East 35th Ave. S. and (Sealth Trail) and West to Military Road S. below
Myrtle.
Anthony Harris took digital photographs.
Cleanup Activities:
-
Collected (67) bags of litter (or approx. 1005 lbs)
- 27
damaged, weathered or missing traffic signs replaced
- 3 tons of
Asphalt applied
- 15 potholes repaired
- 40 cubic yards of debris swept
- 60 feet of faded curb repainted
- Maintainance performed on 20 streetlights
- Cut blackberries & brush totaling approximately (120) bags
of yard waste (approx. 1800 lbs)
- In combination with volunteers Roy Young and Carolyn Dahle spread about
7 tons of gravel and 6 yards of bark in the median S. of Myrtle.
Emergency preparedness information was available for the first time at
the January 20th Clean and Green Seattle event.
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