2008 Fox Rescue - Elgin

We need everyone’s help to protect the Fox River and its tributaries. We invite you, your friends and family to pitch in at the Fox River Cleanups. We have various cleanup locations and dates available to suit all ages. Persons with hip waders, canoes, kayaks are extremely welcomed.


Site I  
Date: Saturday, May 31
Time: 9:00am - 11:00am
Place: Voyageur Landing
Leader: Mary Alice Masonick  (847) 931-4363
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Site II  
Date: Saturday, May 31
Time: 8:30am - Noon
Place: Trout Park, at Duncan Ave to River's edge parking lot
Leader: Jason Kopplin (847) 651-8467 or jkopplin@gmail.com
Type: Shoreline wading, bring your own canoe, if you have one



For Fox Rescue Site Leaders:  Fox Rescue Report Form     Fox Rescue Tracking Sheet

For information on becoming a leader at a different location please contact our Fox Rescue Coordinator Jessi DeMartini at 630-871-7548 or jdemartini@dupageforest.com.

Friends of the Fox River will no longer be supplying water bottles to cleanups due to the environmental issues surrounding them. As an alternative, FOFR will supply a large cooler of water to refill your personel water bottle.

Friends of the Fox River's Fox Rescue cleanups are funded through a generous grant from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's SCALE grant program.

Fox River Cleanup 2008 Photo Gallery by jason at pbase.com
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[Friends of the Fox River] Cleanup event at Trout Park - Rivers Edge in Elgin, Illinois on May 31st, 2008.

Total trash haul was:
219 plastic bags, 331 beverage plastic bottles, 391 beverage glass bottles, 180 beverage cans, 340 bottle caps & lids, 128 cups/plates/silverware, 343 food wrappers/containers, 15 pull tabs, 8 6-pack holders, 77 straws/stirrers, 283 bait containers, 37 buoys/floats, 36 fishing lines/nets/rods/reels, 3 pallets/crates/drums, 46 plastic line/rope, 31 building materials, 3 furniture/shopping carts, 902 cigarettes/lighters/wrappers, 6 car parts, 3 bicycle tires, 138 pieces of Styrofoam, 11 condoms/tampons, 8 articles of clothing (including pants, shorts, socks, shoes, shirts, and an adult snowsuit), 2 picnic tables, a wooden ladder, copper wire, metal sign posts, a hockey stick, a roll of wire fencing, and more!
 
Garbage and Recyclables
Garbage and Recyclables
The Final Haul
The Final Haul
Some of The Volunteers
Some of The Volunteers
Our Boat Gang
Our Boat Gang
Hauling Out Building Material Waste
Hauling Out Building Material Waste
More of the Volunteers
More of the Volunteers