4/21/2018 Earth Day Cleanup – Puako Boat Ramp

Everyone is invited on 4/21 to the Puako Boat Ramp for an Earth Day cleanup

It’s for Volunteers who love Hawaii.

Sign up by email; keeppuakobeautiful@gmail.com

Please share this flyer with your friends, family or group. 

Join Keep Puako Beautiful on Saturday 4/21 at 7:30 AM at the Puako Boat Ramp for an Earth Day beach cleanup. See the flyer for contacts, information on donated air tanks and kayaks.  

Volunteers wanted for land and water activities. 

Land, water and boaters volunteers should bring anything they will need for personal comfort and safety. 

The Puako site for “Scoop it marine debris cleanup”  maybe 1 to 2 miles from the shore. 

We provide cleanup supplies, sign in waivers, tally sheets, jug of water, and snacks.

RSVP a potluck lunch and bring a dish to share.

South Kohala Reef Alliance is a non profit and can provide tax donation slips related to cleanup expences.

Resources for boaters are knives and scoop nets. See below.

They will cut through nets and lines like butter.  Made with stainless steel, and can easily be re-sharpened.

https://www.westmarine.com/buy/west-marine–stainless-steel-serrated-rigging-knife–7785512?recordNum=1

Kurt Leiber is a guest partner from Ocean Defenders. He will have several knives to loan boaters who do not have a good way to cut up the nets. Kurt will share net gear recovery techniques on site. So get there early and he will share his expertise with you.

Kurt Lieber

Executive Director / Founder

Ocean Defenders Alliance (ODA)

kurt@oceandefenders.org

Cell: 714-875-5881

www.oceandefenders.org

http://www.facebook.com/OceanDefende

Scoop net resource. 

Scoop nets with 4’ poles from Neil at POPS Marine (in Oahu) $30 each and some less expensive ones at Walmart. To order you any of those (PROMAR item # LN920B).

Aloha,

Cynthia Ho

Keep Puako Beautiful

Site Coordinator for Community and Citizen Science Beach Cleanups

KHIB, Get the Drift & Bag It, and NOAA MDMAP

South Kohala Reef Alliance 

Ocean Environment and Education in West Hawaii

The 4 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Refuse Single-use Plastics

TerraCycle Cigarette Litter Recycling

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