Gandy Causeway Clean-Up Blitz

Audubon’s Florida Coastal Islands Sanctuaries is scheduling a Clean-Up Blitz on Saturday, February 8, from 10 a.m. to noon. The entire community is welcome to join this effort to improve water quality while enhancing the aesthetic quality of Tampa Bay, one of Florida’s most spectacularly beautiful and biologically valuable water bodies.  It is the largest open-water estuary in the state and is fed by four major river systems.

Community partners engaged in the effort include Ferrovial Services, the FDOT contractor that is providing bags and removing the picked-up trash; Keep Pinellas County Beautiful, which is providing picker-upper tools; and Tampa Bay Watch, which is helping with volunteer coordination.

Volunteers should wear walk-in-the-water-and-mud shoes (not flip flops), long sleeves and pants, a hat, and sunscreen.  Bring gloves and your own picker-upper tool, if possible, and something to drink. We will only be working for about two hours but hope to make a real change, removing debris left by visitors to the site as well as what the tide washes in.

What: Gandy Causeway Clean-up Blitz
Where: the Gandy Causeway on the Pinellas side, on the south of the roadway, at the east end of the mangroves
When: Saturday, Feb. 8, 10 a.m. – noon

For more information: Ann Paul, Audubon Florida’s Coastal Islands Sanctuaries Regional Coordinator, 813.623.6826 – office, or 813.624.3149 – cell.