Thirty-three volunteers, including 17 student volunteers from the University of Illinois Wildlife Society, participated in the Upper Sangamon River Conservancy’s 2015 Sangamon River Clean-Up Saturday.
The group pulled an estimated 1.5 dry tons of trash along with four tires from the Sangamon River. Over the last four years, the group has pulled 7.5 tons of dry trash and 50 tires from the river.
Finding fewer tires than in years past, the group believes they are now beginning to get in front of the garbage left in the river.
