Students Take Charge With Chattahoochee River Litter Trap
by Jennifer Dennard
Georgia-based White County Middle School’s Student Environmental Action Team (SEAT) will get
proactive about keeping the environment healthy when they partner with
Stormwater Systems to help debut the
company’s Bandalong Litter Trap in the United States on the Chattahoochee River on Friday, April
25, from 1-3 p.m. at Edelweiss Strasse in Helen.
The Bandalong Litter Trap from Stormwater Systems can be
made semi-permanent by attachment to shore moorings.
The project will see the students launch the trap into the river in order to discover what
kind of litter is prominent in the area, where it comes from, and how to prevent it from initially
entering the river.
The litter trap is a floating device made of polyethylene pipes that catches floating debris
and traps it, even as the tide turns, through a system of counterweights and paddles that close the
trap’s entry gate when water ceases to flow through it or the tide changes.
For more information about the event, visit
www.stormwatersystems.com/news.htm.