Ferndale Spruit gets a clean-up
FERNDALE – Residents helped to clean-up the Ferndale Spruit during Spruit Day 2019 on 19 October.
Community members and the Ferndale Residents Association had fun cleaning up the Ferndale Spruit during Spruit Day 2019 on 19 October.
Residents donned dust masks, gloves, hats, water, hand sanitiser and tools needed to drag rubbish from the Spruit.
Erica de Jager of the Ferndale Residents Association said, “We had an amazing time cleaning up the Spruit in our area, and the community came together. It was really hot out there, so the five hours were more like 10 hours and well done to all the participants.”
Spruit Day is a venture between Joburg City Parks and Zoo, with cleaning initiatives taking place in suburbs along the entire Braamfontein Spruit from Northcliff to Fourways.
At the end of the day, the group gathered approximately 222 bags filled with litter collected along the Spruit.
“A wide variety of objects were recovered during this clean-up, including a burnt copper cable,” De Jager added.
St Stithians College sent a contingent of 30 girls to represent their school in the cleaning initiative.
“The Saints girls did such an amazing job and they worked very hard.”
The group also installed two street bins and planted over 10 bushwillow trees.
De Jager added, “We would also like to extend a huge word of thanks to the team from Pikitup. A recycling company was supposed to come to fetch the bags of rubbish but did not surface, so we went to Pikitup this morning, and they followed us to the spruit and got it all sorted.”
Last year’s event saw many people joining the residents association for the day, but the group is optimistic that more residents will join in similar campaigns such as the monthly A Re Sebetseng clean-up initiative.
