Litter Cleanup on FM 916

Saturday, January 16, was our first day as Adopt A Highway litter cleanup on FM 916 ( the first 2 miles west of Highway 714 in Rio Vista ). Due to Covid quarantine, we only had 6 volunteers for this day but the crew managed to fill 14 large bags of litter.

It was obvious that this stretch of FM 916 has been a dumping ground for many years. Besides the numerous tires, we also found old beer cans with the original punch holes used before the advent of pull tabs in the 1960’s.

We plan on doing this 6 additional times in 2021.

We use this time to educate the children and adults on the damage such littering does to rural areas.
A large dead feral hog also was a lesson to drive carefully in rural areas…. There was a lot of car body pieces in the vicinity of that dead hog.