Committee members Scott James, Tony Rhinehart and Denny Woodruff met on December 4th and scouted the North River from the Carlisle Nature Park to North Park. This was a 3 hour effort as we identified a number of log jams that need to be dealt with. Some trash was found in the River but log jams appear to be a bigger issue. The group identified several locations where the River could be accessed for removing logs and debris. Land owners will be contacted and will likely want to join the project as it will help prevent flooding of their farm fields.
A major river cleanup will likely have to wait till spring or early summer as rain has made the banks slick and deer hunting season could pose a risk to volunteers.
Enjoy pictures of our beautiful River and consider joining our effort to make it a water trail!!
We are hosting our first planning meeting (12/1/2020) as we speak! Very exciting thinking through the critical steps and impact cleaning the river will have on our community. We feel there is opportunity to link our project with larger river improvement efforts in the greater metro area (Great Outdoors Foundation) and activate previous local planning efforts to expand recreational use of the river.
Members attending the meeting: Dennis Woodruff, Ruth Randleman (not pictured - taking photo), Scott James, Joe Jenkins, Paula Sampson,Tony Rinehart, Cassandra Halls (on phone)
Great first meeting for North River clean up which will happen this spring/summer. We'll meet Friday afternoon to scout out the river and define a plan for scope of the clean up. Hope to have a drone fly over so we can more carefully examine sections of the river which are difficult to access by foot. We'll be identifying the most serious log jams on North River and looking at ways that we may make a river trail from the Carlisle Nature Park area to North Park and eventually on to the Des Moines River. If you would like more information on the project, contact Denny Woodruff at 515-490-2775.
