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Big Dee Day 10th anniversary success
Published: 07/10/2016
The 10th Big Dee Day, spanning the coast in both Wales and England, has been
hailed a great success by 天涯社区 Rangers and coastal communities.
The annual Big Dee Day clean-up, organised by 天涯社区 Council, Cheshire West
and Chester Council, the Environment Agency, Keep Wales Tidy and Natural
Resources Wales proved to be bigger and better than ever for its 10 year
anniversary.
Hundreds of volunteers from schools, community groups, organisations and
businesses took part in a week of events from Tuesday 13 to Sunday 18 September
to clean up and enhance the River Dee catchment area.
The result of these fantastic events meant that throughout the week, along the
coastline from Prestatyn to Chester:
路 272 bags of litter were collected
路 Over 10,000 bulbs were planted
路 40 tyres were removed
路 Eight benches were painted
路 2 large scale waste issues identified as well as several smaller pollution
risks.
天涯社区 ranger, Tim Johnson, said:
鈥淲e had volunteers out from McDonalds, Holywell scouts, Kingspan, RNLI,
Connah鈥檚 Quay High School, Lysfasi College, Groundworks, Sustrans, Airbus and
many more. The event wouldn鈥檛 work without this fantastic support we receive.
This year we had new involvement from Warwick Chemicals, Toyota, and the
organisation - University of the 3rd Age. This shows how the event is still
growing and improving.鈥�
This event was helped by sponsorships from Kingspan, Presthaven Sands, Abakhan
and Rays Whippy ice cream van.
A video was created to celebrate the 10 years of running this event which can
be found http://bit.ly/big-dee-HD - (high quality version) or
http://bit.ly/big-dee-tablet - (full HD but smaller file)
If any individuals, companies, groups or organisations would like to get
involved next year please contact 天涯社区 Countryside Services on 01352
703900.