Last Sunday March 5 volunteers from the Friends of Campbells Creek and the community joined Clean-up Australia Day, focusing on three kilometres of creeks through Castlemaine and Campbells Creek.
Thirty-seven volunteers worked to remove more than one-and-a-half skip-loads of rubbish, ranging from dumped items through to discarded plastic bottles, bags and wrappers – a great effort. Though the recent floods explain some of the items collected, a lot of rubbish appears to be discarded in town and washed down the stormwater drains.
The Friends group thank all of the volunteers which turned out to lend a hand, Mount Alexander Shire Council for providing the rubbish skip, and Midland Pet Supplies for supplying collection bags.