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Annual Clean-up
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Annual Clean-up
This year's clean-up will be held on Sunday 20 November, wet or fine. Come along and 'share the load'. Wear your gumboots, pick up the rubbish in your allocated section, then come back and enjoy a sausage sizzle at Brown's Bay afterwards.
The annual inlet clean-up began in 1992 when the Keep Porirua Beautiful organisation (KPB) approached GOPI and other community organisations asking if we would be interested in taking part in Community Clean Up Day. It has been an annual event since then, jointly organised by GOPI and Keep Porirua Beautiful.
Plimmerton Rotary and the Mana New World have also been long-term supporters. Rotary members help pick up rubbish and run the free barbecue lunch for volunteers. Mana New World generously donates the food for the barbecue and a grocery voucher to be won by a lucky volunteer.
The clean-up is held on a Sunday in October or November when low tide will be around midday. Volunteers gather at Browns Bay at 11am and are sent off, armed with gloves and rubbish bags, to clean up their allocated section of shoreline.
An hour or two later things wind up with a barbecue back at Browns Bay.
The filled rubbish bags are deposited at signposted points around the inlet to be collected by a truck organised by KPB.
The clean-up serves to keep the inlet looking its sparkling best but also provides other benefits for GOPI members. It is the chance to meet other members and people from the local communities.
Working on the inlet shore is an opportunity to become re-acquainted with the natural beauty of the water and wildlife.