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Rock Creek Tire Cleanup:

Pictures from the Rock Creek tire pile cleanup. [10/16/00]

5,000 tires were removed from the head waters of Rock Creek through a cooperative effort between the current owner of the property (not the person who put the tires on the property), nine concerned neighbors, nine volunteers from the Trout Lake AmeriCorps Service Academy and Klickitat County Health Department with assistance from Solid Waste. The tires represented a direct threat to the health of Rock Creek, a spawning stream for an endangered species of steelhead.


Rock Creek Headwaters

Tire pile in Rock Creek Tire pile in Rock Creek Tire pile in Rock Creek
Tire pile in Rock Creek

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The Tires

Tire pile in Rock Creek View of tire pile site from road above Protecting the head waters of Rock Creek
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Cleanup of 5,000 tires took three days. 18 people, using 5 donated vehicles, transported the tires from the bottom of the canyon to semi-truck containers at the top of the hill. The tires were shipped to a Portland area tire recycler. The owner of the property absorbed the cost of proper disposition of the tires.

Cleanup Begins

Teamwork: AmeriCorps and local volunteers Unloading to semi-truck trailers Unloading to semi-truck trailers

Stacking tires in containers Stacking tires in containers Stacking tires in containers
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The tires weigh from 25 to 125 pounds each. We estimate 150,000 pounds of tires were moved during the three days of the volunteer effort. A common goal, well executed team work and perfect weather contributed to a successful cleanup.

Back to work Loading volunteer trucks AmeriCorps Volunteers AmeriCorps Volunteers
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The crew did take a few moments to rest.

Lunch On top of the pile On top of the pile
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After the Cleanup

Tire pile in Rock Creek Tire pile in Rock Creek Tire pile in Rock Creek
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Date of Source Material: 12/19/2005
Source: Klickitat County Solid Waste
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