Mtn Island Lake Cluttered with Garbage
Dirty diapers, beer bottles and tangled fishing line makes up just some of the garbage piling up along Mountain Island Lake, Charlotte's primary drinking supply.
Report by David Kernodle of News14Carolina.
CHARLOTTE – Dirty diapers, beer bottles and tangled fishing line makes up just some of the garbage piling up along Mountain Island Lake, Charlotte's primary drinking supply.
A great deal of the trash can be found near the riverbend boat access in Gaston County, an area Alice Battle, a former Mountain Island marine commissioner and now a commission adviser, fought tooth-and-nail for years to keep clean.
But as the mountain of trash piles up, she says there's just as much red tape surrounding its cleanup.
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Mtn Island Lake Covekeeper Alice Battle (left foreground) removed hundreds of lbs of garbage from the lake during NC Big Sweep in 2010. MIL Marine Commissioner Craig Wyant (left background) participated as well.
A huge pile of trash litters a beach near the Riverbend Access Ramp after the July 4th, 2011 Holiday weekend
Update:
During the Oct. 1, 2011 Big Sweep Event at Mountain Island Lake most of the shoreline around the Riverbend Access was cleared of the trash and tires that had accumulated there. Unfortunately, by early December a large amount of litter had been left behind again by thoughtless picnickers, swimmers and fishermen.
