Friends of Little Rocky Run

March 24, 2007 - Tommy Dively's Eagle Scout Project

Volunteers have been working for over five years to clean the Little Rocky Run section from the Compton Road Bridge upstream to the power lines.  Huge amounts of trash, automobile parts (including an entire Willis Jeep body), tires, carpet remnants, hazardous waste, and paint shop supplies have been removed from this area.  This area was an illegal dump site for decades.  (See also historical details). Eagle-Scout-to-be Tommy Dively (above), with Boy Scout Troop 577, put the coup de grace on this part of the creek on 3/24/2007, literally scouring the earth and filling 75(!) bags with a mountain of roofing tiles and the usual bottles and cans.  They also removed a heavy section of conduit pipe that had been precariously balanced on the stream bank for 20 years or so.  Tommy’s crew even installed two Adopt-A-Stream signs on both sides of the Compton Road Bridge. These signs had not been worthy of installation until Tommy’s project removed the final eyesores from this once beleaguered section of Little Rocky Run. 19 volunteers completed this project with 48 man hours of very hard work.  Tommy Dively and Boy Scout Troop 577 deserve the community’s praise for this outstanding accomplishment. The volunteers were Tommy Dively, Tom Marotta, Ben Bolash, John Clements, Peter Smith, Steve Zempolich, Chris Zempolich, Nick Zempolic, Susan Pennett, Andrew Worley, Robert Kistener, Matt Mason, Michael Helme, Charlie Helme, David Chong, JB Bierwirth, Linda Blake, Ned Foster, and Robert Dively

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