Clinch River Chapter Trout Unlimited
Tire Round-up 2009

12 August 2009

Even starting the day out with fog making it hard to see, volunteers cleared a section of the Clinch River of over 110 more tires and other debris on Saturday, 12  August 2009.  Volunteers have removed over 6,100 tires from the Clinch River and Coal Creek in the past eight years.

Buzz Buffington, who is obsessed with removing tires, led the effort and did a fine job of managing the logistics as always.

Volunteers brought tools to "snag" tires from the river bottom.  Boats were used to float the tires to the riverbank to haul to the proper dump. The weather was perfect.  The water was cold.  There was lots of laughter and foolishness. 



Thanks to volunteer members of the chapter, friends, and property owners (for allowing river access) as listed at the bottom of this page.  View the photos from the day below.

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Volunteers included:

Buffington, Buzz
Geiger, Dick
Gist, Clayton
Guinn, Bill
Hahn, Scott
McCarthy, John 
Moore, Carol
Morgan, Andrew
Oates, Frances
Shipman,  Bill
Thurman, John
VanFossen, Jerry
Wollard, Ron

 

 

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