The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Rotary Club’s Greenway Cleanup took place on April 26. We cleaned up the West Side Rowing Club (WSRC) Grounds. The pollinator garden hillside was cleared and readied for additional mulch and pollinator plantings. The Rotary Park garden at the water’s edge was cleared and our crews removed trash/debris on our entire Greenway section from Porter Ave to Niagara St. In addition to Rotarians and “Friends of Rotary”, the clean-up crew included 64 young WSRC rowers, 8 adult rowers, and staff and coaches from the WSRC.We collected 8-10 trash bags of the typical post-winter litter that were picked up. If each bag weighed an average of 30lbs, it would be roughly 300lbs. This amount has been significantly reduced due to our consistent efforts over the last 5 years of cleanups twice per year.
Between the hillside pollinator garden, Rotary Park and the flotsam and jetsam at the shoreline, we can describe the organic debris as roughly the size of a short school bus!
It was removed and will be picked up by the City of Buffalo.
