Valley Creek, Renew Our Rivers Cleanup Reaps Trash And Fellowship

By Michael Sznajderman

It was another hot August week in Alabama, but that didn’t discourage 250 volunteers, city and public agency workers, and nonprofit supporters from making a positive environmental impact on Valley Creek in Jefferson County.

The seventh annual Valley Creek cleanup drew volunteers to seven locations along the waterway in western areas of the county, including spots within the city limits of Bessemer, Birmingham, Brighton, Lipscomb and Midfield. Together, they picked up multiple dumpster-loads of trash from roadsides near the creek, and from the creek itself.

In the days leading up to Saturday’s volunteer day, area municipalities and Jefferson County put their resources toward removing some of the bigger and heavier items that end up in the creek, including old tires, shopping carts and piles of scrap metal. Saturday’s volunteer forces were formed from more than a dozen educational institutions and organizations and included students from Bessemer, Fairfield, Midfield and Oak Grove high schools and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, as well as fraternity and sorority alumni groups.

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