The Forbes Dragon Boat Club participated in last Sunday’s Clean Up Australia Day in style, using nets and paddles to do their bit for the annual clean up.
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With 16 paddlers, the club were the largest group of participants to register for the clean up on the day and they concentrated on cleaning their training area, the end section of Lake Forbes.
Member of the Forbes Dragon Boat Club Carmen Stephens said the group had a typical day paddling on the water and then started their clean up.
“We had a regular paddle session first, for about half an hour then half of us stayed in the boat to clean up in the water, while others walked and cleaned up the edges,” she said.
“Our sweep did an excellent job of steering us around while the other paddlers used nets and their paddles to scoop in the rubbish.”
Health and Building Surveyor Scott Brackenridge said that despite wet weather, the community still got involved on Sunday.
“We were worried that the wet weather would deter people but we still got a good number of registrations,” he said.
“The unconfirmed number of participants is around 30.”
On a national scale, Over 572,406 volunteers have donned their gloves and picked up a bag to remove rubbish from around 7,140 sites across the nation.
Early figures predict volunteers will have removed around 15,708 tonnes of rubbish in Australia.
