The dump site yielded 95 bags of trash, 1 tire, and a pile of recyclable metal. The total weight of all of the trash, including the portable toilet, was 4,045 lbs., most of it left as shown above for the Park Authority to remove. The metal was taken to the Ox Road landfill.
The portable toilet was very inconveniently located in a vernal pond at the base of a cliff, just upstream from Little Rocky Run. It is believed that it washed down from upstream soccer fields during the huge flood of 2006 The only way to remove it, since it was strongly suctioned to the bottom of the pool and partially buried in stream clay, was to cut it into chunks with a portable reciprocating saw and yank it out. In the picture at right, Andy Marotta is sawing away. This was a nasty undertaking, but at least the original contents of the holding tank were long gone.
Volunteers were: David Chung, Andrew Shaw, Andrew Pan, Parth Desai, Kristie Taylor, Mari Marotta, Paris Marotta, Andrew Marotta JR, JoAnn Costello, Andrew Marotta, Tom Marotta, George Bolash , Ben Bolash, Alex Alvarado, Wilmer Alvarado, Timothy Kim, John Bowden, Kyle Burrell, Christopher Helme, Michael Helme, Chip Helme, Nick Carroll, Drew Boland, Daniel Clements, Nick Zempolich, Chris Zempolich, Logan Hillman, Bill Hillman, Alex Aquilera, Ricardo Aquilera, Ryan Buzzy, Keegan Collins, Vinnie Caporale and Ned Foster.
Chip Hunter, a local resident whose property borders on Bull Run Regional Park, was kind enough to let us use his property as the take-out point. Without his cooperation, the project would have been almost impossible.
The local community owes a special thank-you to Tom and, as always, Boy Scout Troop 577. Thanks also to Colin Riley and the Izaak Walton League who are the state-designated adoptees of this section of Bull Run.
