ANIMAL ASSOCIATES Surfside Beach Water-Litter Project 2006. http://animalassociates.freeservers.com http://www.coastal.edu/envsci/vm_project.html

Jose Calderon and Kaila Caldron, Water-Litter Leaders. See the Photo Gallery of this project here. Photos are in no particular order.

This is what it is all about! Kids getting involved in helping our community. Not enough places allow kids to help in these ways or to volunteer for animals. This is where ANIMAL ASSOCIATES comes in.

Watter-Litter kids who are involved in the project are:

Megan, Lexy, Samantha (Sammi), Katy, Kristie, Keila, Jose, Me-Darcie, James, and Megans moms and mine when we needed that adult hand.

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Litter and garbage hurts the water and the animals who live there. It needs to be cleaned up.

This project will go through the summer and longer.

We can clean a ditch out, and the very next day, new litter is already thrown in and around by people and kids who do not care about our environment, animals, and water.

I also test the river water in another project for PH, turbidity, bacteria, and other things. With so much development in our area, it can hurt our water. It is the Waccamaw River Water Quality Monitoring Program.

http://www.coastal.edu/envsci/vm_project.html

I am on Hamps team, he is the River Keeper.

When you place Animal Associates, and caring for animals, The Water-Litter Project, retriving garbage from our ditches, and streams, and the River Water Monitoring Program, it leads to almost the same thing. Litter filled water, hurts our animals, and people. The more people, the more litter and waste. It must be taken care of.

I found a dead animal in one of the ditches we cleaned one day in mid July. It looked like a grey white colored cat or possibly an opossum. There is an opossum that lives there, a beaver, a raccoon, 3 ducks, and a muskrat. What killed it? The crappy water? Some of those drugs we found on day in the ditch? We try so hard to keep it clean there, and we lose an animal.

The problems here, in the ditches and streams, is just plain negligence. People throw garbage because they are lazy!

We use long nets to retrieve garbage from the ditches and streams.

On this page, you can see photos of the many different project days.

Our project was interviewed two days by a reporter for the Sun News. The first day, he took pictures of Megan, Jose, and Keila. A few days later, he came back and got pictures of me, (Darcie), Jose, and Keila. We will place these articles on the viewing site http://animalasssociatesclub.s5.com or visit animalassociates.freeservers.com and click on the viewing link tab at the top.

(please note: all are involved in this project, we just don't have photos of every person on each clean-up day. there is not enough room on this site.)

PLEASE BE PATIENT WHILE ALL 16 PHOTOS LOAD

It took Megan and I (Darcie) almost an hour to rip this shopping cart out of the ditch. Weeds were grown in all around it. This cart could have trapped turtles and they could have died.

Below: Megan and Darcie, 2 photos, clean-up day 1