Help Clean Up Creeks in Lower Bucks

By: JAMES MCGINNIS Bucks County Courier Times

About 300 volunteers have pledged to clean up trash in creeks through the Farmbrook, Stonybrook and Greenbrook sections.

Most see dumping and are disgusted. Dale Frazier gets motivated.

After five years of staring at trash dumped in the creek near his own home, the Bristol Township resident is on a mission. He started a Web site to publish photos and document the damage to parks and streams in Levittown.

On Saturday, Frazier's group - the Greenbelt Overhaul Alliance of Levittown - plans a "phase one cleanup" of three Levittown sections.

Some 300 volunteers have pledged to help clean up trash in the creeks that run through Levittown's Farmbrook, Stonybrook and Greenbrook sections, Frazier said.

In the future, the group hopes to tackle each of Levittown's 41 sections.

"We are doing this by organizing volunteers in each of the sections that make up the four municipalities that make up Levittown," Frazier added. "We would like to have a leader in each section."

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Waste Management and Bristol Township each have agreed to donate hundreds of trash bags and protective gloves for the kickoff cleanup, Frazier said. Shop Rite is providing cold drinks, Frazier said.

Tullytown officials agreed to provide hamburgers and hot dogs for a barbecue, which will follow the cleanup. Part of the Stonybrook section is in Tullytown.

Volunteers will gather at 9 a.m. at the ball fields behind John Fitch Elementary School at 101 Greenbrook Drive in Bristol Township. "We have about 300 people who have told us that they plan to be there, but we always welcome more help," Frazier said.

"You've got the Friends of the Delaware Canal and the Delaware River, but who takes care of these greenbelts in Levittown?" Frazier asked. "Someone has to do it."

For more information and to view pictures of dumping, visit www.ltowngoal. webs.com.

If you go

What: Phase one cleanup of greenbelts in 3 Levittown sections

When: 9 a.m. on May 16

Where: Meet on ballfields behind John Fitch Elementary School on Greenbrook Drive, Levittown.

What you can expect: Trash bags, protective gloves will be provided for 3-hour cleanup of greenbelts and creeks; hotdog and hamburger cookout after the 3-hour event