Salt Creek Cleanup on Saturday June 21st, preparations are underway

Salt Creek Clean-up
Saturday, June 21
starting at 8AM til about 10:30

We need your help. Please sign up today.
Call 727-826-9774

Wear work clothes and if you plan to work in the lake wear shoes that can get wet ! ! !
We will be cleaning up the area surrounding the lake.
Meet at the Bartlett Park Community Resource Center - 642 22nd Ave S

Snacks, water and soft drinks will be provided.

Sponsored by

Bartlett Park Neighborhood Association, Harbordale Neighborhood Association, Bartlett Park Community Resource Center, Keep Pinellas Beautiful, City of St.Petersburg, Harambee, the African American Student Union at SPC - Gibbs Campus and the YMCA, and City Council member Karl Nurse.



Bartlett Park Neighborhood Association volunteer David Schroeder has been busy cutting and removing dozens of Brazilian Pepper-Trees that are threatening the mangroves of Salt Creek. Part of our clean up is to remove this invasive species before it can choke out the valuable native trees. This photo taken this morning shows Dave loading a truck with pepper tree limbs. The city park is in the background to the south.
Lots of bottles and other litter are being cleaned up as well. The mangroves serve a function of filtering runoff before it enters Salt Creek. This litter is an example of trash that would have washed into the water if native vegetation has not stopped it.

Pepper-tree stumps are all that remain.






On Saturday the 21st we will go out on canoes and clean litter and debris that are trapped in the branches and in the shallow water of the creek.