Twelve volunteers tackled a wetlands cleanup project at the old Hoda Farmstead in Nescopeck State Park, Luzerne County, on Saturday, July 13, 2002. Their 65 hours of donated labor resulted in 170 bags of trash being filled with broken glass and other household trash. They also gathered recyclable scrap metal, creating piles in various locations in preparation for the second phase of the project.
Two days later, contractor Environmental Restoration Inc. of Courtdale carefully used a small track hoe to skim the concentrated piles of buried trash from the forest floor and restore the wetlands to its natural ground level. Seven truck loads of trash were hauled away by Waste Reduction and Recycling of Wilkes Barre to the Keystone Sanitary Landfill in Dunmore.
The large recyclable metal items were removed by machine and by hand, and two truckloads were taken to Hazelton Scrap Recycling Inc. A 1950's-model car was taken to Kress Auto Salvage, and an old rotting mobile home and two additional rusty cars were taken from the park a day later by the contractor from sites on Honey Hole Road, the Mountain Loop Oak Trail and the Nescopeck Quarry. Many of the pieces of old farm equipment were left in place, where they came to rest decades ago, for use in one of the park's outdoor classrooms.
DCNR encourages Luzerne County residents with disposal and recycling questions to contact County Recycling Coordinator Ed Latinski at 570-820-6300 or by e-mail.
Nescopeck State Park is one of Pennsylvania's newest developments. In addition to offering quality education programs, the park will be used as an outdoor natural laboratory. Habitats include more than 200 acres of high quality wetlands, six miles of Nescopeck Creek, and a nine-acre lake which are home to hundreds of indigenous species of plants and animals.
Twelve volunteers tackled a wetlands cleanup project at the old Hoda Farmstead in Nescopeck State Park, Luzerne County, on Saturday, July 13, 2002. Their 65 hours of donated labor resulted in 170 bags of trash being filled with broken glass and other household trash. They also gathered recyclable scrap metal, creating piles in various locations in preparation for the second phase of the project.
Two days later, contractor Environmental Restoration Inc. of Courtdale carefully used a small track hoe to skim the concentrated piles of buried trash from the forest floor and restore the wetlands to its natural ground level. Seven truck loads of trash were hauled away by Waste Reduction and Recycling of Wilkes Barre to the Keystone Sanitary Landfill in Dunmore.
The large recyclable metal items were removed by machine and by hand, and two truckloads were taken to Hazelton Scrap Recycling Inc. A 1950's-model car was taken to Kress Auto Salvage, and an old rotting mobile home and two additional rusty cars were taken from the park a day later by the contractor from sites on Honey Hole Road, the Mountain Loop Oak Trail and the Nescopeck Quarry. Many of the pieces of old farm equipment were left in place, where they came to rest decades ago, for use in one of the park's outdoor classrooms.
