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Kaw River Cleanup

Almost 100 volunteers gathered Saturday, March 11, at a remote spot along the Kaw River south of Linwood, Kan. Their purpose was to clean up about 1,000 old tires littering a sandbar. The project was organized by Friends of the Kaw and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Helping out were 46 employees from AMCOR, a Lenexa plastics manufacturing plant.

Photo by John Beal

First step in the massive cleanup project was to dig the tires out of the sandbar and stack them for transfer to a collection point above the sandbar.

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