26th Annual Peninsula Clean-Up - Saturday, February 12

26TH ANNUAL PENINSULA CLEAN-UP - FEBRUARY 12

A note from Roscoe Lee, Interim Chairman – Nassau Bay Parks Committee and Keep Nassau Bay Beautiful Committee:

Please volunteer with us on Saturday, February 12, 2022 for Nassau Bay’s 26th Annual Peninsula Cleanup! The Clean-up will be conducted from 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM or however much time that you can spend.

Due to narrow street and limited parking, please park at the parking lot at David Braun Park and walk to the Peninsula Gate.

This event will combine efforts of Keep Nassau Bay Beautiful and the Clear Creek Environmental Foundation (CCEF). You may also volunteer with CCEF and work the cleanup from a boat by going to the Egret Bay Blvd (FM 270) boat ramp, where boats will be launched.

To maintain COVID-19 awareness, consistent with recommendations from Keep Texas Beautiful, we request masking, social distancing, and working in family groups or close neighbor groups. We offer an online sign up to minimize the queuing at the sign-in table (www.nassaubay. com/PeninsulaSignUp). Please do a quick contactless checkin at the gate on the day of the event.

We will have trash bags, gloves, some trash pick-up sticks, masks, hand sanitizer, and water at the check-in table.

For volunteers who worked this event in the past, if you have pick-up sticks from those events, please bring them. Please wear long pants and shoes which won’t pull off easily, since you may encounter mud.

We also welcome volunteers with golf carts or ATVs which will be used to transport volunteers to and from the Peninsula. Please wear masks while riding on the vehicles. We will try to arrange for golf carts to transport you to/from the Peninsula gate and parking lot.

Kayakers and canoeists are also welcome since some of the trash is difficult to reach from the shore. The City has a kayak/canoe launch site at the end of the parking lot in David Braun Park, where you can park and easily unload your kayak or canoe. You can also drop your accumulated trash at the parking lot when you return.

Former Mayor Mark Denman, who started the event 26 years ago, will be marking areas of high trash density with long PVC poles with orange-painted tops. This will help focus our efforts since it is impossible to clean the entire Peninsula.

We truly appreciate your interest in this volunteer effort which will make the wildlife area much more pleasant to visit. It will also provide you an outlet to burn off the energy that you’ve saved up during the pandemic.

For more information contact Mark Denman (mdenman72@ outlook.com) or Roscoe Lee (roscoe.lee@nassaubay.com). Thank you in advance!