This past Saturday was the annual stream cleanup. I joined the boy scouts at Chester Park, just along the township’s border. It was also mentored youth trout day in PA apparently, so the creek was pretty busy.
I checked the list of sponsors. Both Media and Nether Providence are supporters as is Ridley and Upper Providence, but Swarthmore is absent. Those of you on the other side of the Crum might ask your borough to chip in next year.
The park wasn’t the worst I’ve seen, but we still pulled out plenty of bottles, plastic bags, pallets and so on before the rain rolled in. I photographed some of the park during the cleanup and put together a gallery.
The annual t-shirt. 
This is the first cleanup that I’ve seen use old buckets for trash. This greatly reduced the number of half-empty plastic bags we ended up using. 
Chester Park’s sledding hill (but not this past winter) 
The pipelines leave a nasty scar through nature. 
An old bench, disappearing into the wilderness. 
Fungus. 
Fungus. 
Small flowers were blooming throughout the park. 
More flowers. 
Many of the trees were starting to bud. 
This robin was particularly insistent. 
A trio of deer were not happy with the interruption. 
Trail along the creek. 
The creek. 
Chester Park has a nice new exercise loop right between Nether Providence, Chester and Parkside. 
The old Chester Park bridge, long in need of restoration. 
Some of the trash collected. 
This year the City of Chester provided a truck to take the trash away, which was nice.
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