Morbid Curiosity Traditional Cache
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After reading about a local suicide in this place, I was curious enough to pay a visit on a rainy weeknight.
Parking available @N40° 04.042 W76° 40.194.
Gut Road Clean-up Project
With the help of area volunteers and businesses, East Manchester Township, members of York Chapter 67 of the Izaak Walton League and the Pennsylvania Fish Commission began efforts in 1990 to cleanup a four-mile stretch of East Manchester Township Susquehanna riverbank between Wago Junction and Blouse's Landing. Portions of this reach of riverbank were considered the *WORST EXAMPLE OF ILLEGAL DUMPING IN THIS COUNTRY*, strewn with furniture, televisions, appliances, empty drums, cans, roofing shingles, wood glass, metal and plastic, all within reach of Susquehanna floodwaters.
The Gut Road Clean-up Project is a hands-on restoration effort involving local government and citizen volunteers. In 1990, volunteers removed over 237 tons of refuse, white goods, car parts, etc. from the four-mile stretch.
The cleanup required 400 hours of labor, donated by members of the Izaak Walton League, Met-Ed power company employees, township supervisors, Fish Commission representatives, representative from area civic clubs including the Lions and the Jaycees and the Manchester Cub Scouts. Both time and materials needed for this effort were donated by utility companies, environmental groups, state representatives, food/vendor companies, refuse collection companies and concerned citizens.
Since the initial effort in 1990, the clean-up project has become an on-going community event.
The Gut Road Project has demonstrated that local support for conservation is indeed flourishing. Township officials, as well as the local police department, receive calls from concerned citizens when dumping occurs or after trash has been discovered. Citizens attend township meetings to discuss the environmental issues within the project area and manifest a much greater stewardship interest in the area as a result of their efforts.
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