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Ndlambe Municipality cleaning up Port Alfred Duck Pond

Port Alfred residents and commuters through town may have noticed a flurry of cleaning activity around the Duck Pond adjacent to Southwell Road this week. Ndlambe Municipality has responded to Talk of the Town’s photos, video and queries…

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Recurring pollution in Port Alfred Duck Pond

In a follow up to an issue Talk of the Town reported on two weeks ago, we went to look at the Port Alfred Duck Pond adjacent to the Anchorage Mall on Sunday, which had been littered with filth for an undetermined period, including used…

HORRENDOUS POLLUTION: An assortment of plastic litter and even tyres have been discarded in the watercourses and wetland around the Port Alfred Duck Pond. Talk of the Town can report that this rubbish was removed by the municipality after our queries Pictures: ADELE STECK

Rubbish removed from Duck Pond after TotT’s queries

Recently, Talk of the Town staff member Adele Steck took photos of the litter polluting the Duck Pond in Port Alfred, showing an assortment of plastic and even tyres discarded in the water closest to the parking lot next to the Anchorage…

Keeping Kowie clean

In the time this writer has been editing Talk of the Town there have been numerous community clean-ups, some of which Talk of the Town has initiated and participated in. For several consecutive years our Mandela Day project was a beach…

A JOB WELL DONE: About 20 local residents joined Talk of the Town staff for a cleanup of the Port Alfred Duck Pond last Saturday. Sunshine Spar provided black refuse bags, Leach Pharmacy provided sanitary gloves, Outdoor Focus supplied a canoe, and The Water Bar sponsored water for the participants. The thorough cleanup saw a couple of dozen refuse bags filled with all manner of trash littering the edges of the Duck Pond, including numerous glass bottles, plastic bottles, bottle tops, plastic cigarette box wrapping, thousands of sweet wrappers and even a discarded car bumper. Going out on the canoe, Renae Purdon from Outdoor Focus with the help of Matthew Steck gathered litter floating on the pond surface and among the reeds. Ndlambe Municipality picked up the collected rubbish. Not all volunteers were present for the photo Picture: ROB KNOWLES

United effort to keep our town tidy

When colleague Adele Steck first touted the idea of a clean-up around the Port Alfred Duck Pond, I admit I was sceptical. The idea originated when, during a Tittle Tattle Live broadcast at the robots, I noted the amount of litter on the…