Volunteers picked up between three and five tons of trash and recyclables from alongside the Chilkat River and channels during the Takshanuk Watershed Council’s annual cleanup event May 4.
Brad Ryan, the group’s executive director, said items included discarded large appliances, ranges and refrigerators, and a porcelain toilet containing feces.
At 7 Mile Haines Highway, crews found “bags and bags of half burned diapers. We couldn’t get them all. You had to shovel them out.”…
