The trio was among the scores of people who walked the shores of North Douglas, and many others along other coastlines reached by outflow of the Mendenhall River, during the community cleanup organized by the City and Borough of Juneau and Litter Free Inc.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
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<\/a>Patrick Cashman (left) and Logan Ginter (right), both maintenance workers for the city’s parks and recreation department, hand yellow trash bags to Isabelle Geddes (white jacket) and Andrea Dewees at False Outer Point during a community shoreline cleanup Sunday. (Mark Sabbatini \/ Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Large-scale cleanups of items such as oil tanks and trees by agencies such as the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation have occurred since the waters receded last Sunday, along with a multitude of residents doing smaller cleanups and searching for items to return to their original owners. But people participating in Sunday’s cleanup said it was a chance to clear beaches of smaller fragments of hazardous items such as insulation and plastics, as well as the more obviously visible pieces.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“I was out here and I couldn’t help myself,” said Peggy Tutu, who joined the cleanup while on an outing with her grandson, Amos Andreassen, 6. “We haven’t really found that much garbage from the debris and the flood, but you never know. There’s always garbage to pick up.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
In addition to picking up wiring, bits of lumber and random items like a whiffle ball, the pair also removed nails from a fire pit apparently left behind after pallets were burned.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
While the city instructed participants to leave collection bags along certain roads for pickup, and to contact the official flood response email contact (floodresponse@juneau.gov<\/a>) for removal of items too large to bring to the road, there were no specific plans for items that could potentially be returned to owners. People taking part in the cleanup said they would take the same actions others have during the past week, such as posting photos of the items at community social media sites.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “I would probably bring it to my former student here, said Andrea Dewees, an associate professor at the University of Alaska Southeast, referring to Patrick Cashman, one of two city parks and recreation maintenance workers passing out trash bags to participants at the False Outer Point Wayside.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Dewees said she was participating in the cleanup out of an interest to see where items from the flood washed up and a concern about diesel fuel contamination in the affected area.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “Juneau doesn’t seem to have a very robust plan for diesel response,” she said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
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