Cleaning up has become a fun-charged community event. Or that’s what it looked like at Spruit Day 2014.
Community members and organisations, undeterred by the frosty cold morning and the then glaring sun in the afternoon were out in full force clearing up the Braamfontein Spruit at Delta Park on 7 June. They cleared up weeds, fished intrusive objects out of the river and destroyed invasive plants to the beat of music, on the back of Segways and with big smiles on their faces.
“It was certainly a great success,” Blairgowrie Resident’s Association member Pieter van Zyl (Parks Portfolio) said enthusiastically.
“We’ve had a great response from everyone. We’re definitely going to implement this more than once a year.”
Ward councillor David Potter was also at Delta Park helping with the clean-up. “It’s been great. Doing this makes our communities’ cleaner and safer,” he said.
Delta Park wasn’t the only park along the spruit getting a face-lift – communities turned up to clean all along key points and parks throughout the city where the Braamfontein spruit runs.
