Welcome to Cobb Island, Maryland

The Cobb Island Citizens Association [CICA]

Cobb Island to participate in annual Potomac River Cleanup Day - Saturday, April 4, 2009

Why Have a Watershed Cleanup?

The Potomac River provides 480 million gallons of drinking water to the Washington area and 100 millions of ground water to rural regions. It is a symbol of the health of our community. What does it say about us when we allow trash to line the river shoreline and lodge in its streambeds?

Plastic bottles, styrofoam, food wrappers, coffee cups -- you name it, and it's in our river and streams! How did most of htis trash get there? As water washes down our sidewalks and street and into storm drains, it carries with it whatever is in its path. Storm drains then dump the water into nearby tributaries, or into the river itself.

Last year, 4,000 volunteers at 127 sites hauled away 122 tons of trash from the tributaries and shoreline of the Potomac.

Join us on April 4, 2009!

How to Get Involved at Cobb Island

Meet us across from the Cobb Island Post Office, at the "Welcome to Cobb Island" sign beginning at about 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 4, 2009. Wear warm clothes, boots, and be prepared to get dirty --- for a great cause! The event is held rain or shine. Need directions to Cobb Island? Click on the "Map/Directions" link below.

Workers will be assigned to various sites on the Island. We pick up trash from roadways and ditches (because all roadways and ditches eventually will empty into the rivers that surround our Island. Some of the stronger teams will be assigned to beaches, wetlands, and other areas to remove junk, lumber, and other debris. In past years, the Cobb Island Vol. Fire & EMS Department has helped out with cutting and hauling larger debris, pilings, etc. Trash bags will be provided, and filled trash bags and junk will be placed along the roadside nearest the removal site. Other volunteers will be running the roads in pickup trucks and hauling away all the trash and refuse to the Breeze Farm Recycling Center.

Snacks and beverages will be provided to volunteers at the "Headquarters" site across from the Cobb Island Post Office parking lot. Afterwards, all our local restaurants welcome you to buy a hot seafood lunch -- and you can "come as you are" in your work clothes.

Signup sheets will be put up in the Cobb Island Post Office. If you are not local but want to help out at Cobb Island, just come on down and we will have something for you to do to help the environment.

Thank you!!

(photo courtesy Gene Davies, County Services Realty)