TRR photo by David Hulse Kittatinny co-owner Dave Jones is pictured with some of the trash that volunteers pulled out of the Upper Delaware last week. (Click for larger image)

Kittatinny cleans up the river again

By DAVID HULSE

MATAMORAS, PA — They were totaling the take last Thursday morning after some 344 volunteers spent three days picking trash along the Upper Delaware in Kittatinny Canoes 14th annual River Cleanup.

All told, they pulled out some 12.7 tons of trash along 70 miles of riverbank. That’s a lot of junk, but Kittatinny co-owner Dave Jones said the total has been on a downward trend for the past couple years. Jones, who usually participates with a diving snorkel and mask said, “I’ve never seen the river this clean. It’s really getting harder and harder to find junk,” he said.

Still, there are chronic problem areas like the Hawks Nest, where people continue to throw trash over the stone walls. Kittatinny volunteers pulled two empty dumpsters from the foot of the cliffs this year.