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Welcome
to www.CleanNO.org - Home of the
Katrina Krewe
Pitching
In for a Cleaner
New Orleans
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Volunteer
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Krewe
Aiding
Trash Removal
In
the New
Orleans Area
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Katrina
Krewe is no longer hosting
"Katrina" clean ups, however, we
continue
to facilitate local
recovery efforts via our volunteer pool. See info on upcoming events
and ongoing efforts below. To
receive event updates, please
send your email address to
becky@cleanno.org
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CITYWIDE
UPCOMING & ONGOING VOLUNTEER EFFORTS...
*Note
- below are not Katrina Krewe
events, see respective links for details.
The
City of
N.O. Recycling drop-off event: Orleans Parish locations on June 14th
from 9:00 am until noon: on the
East Bank at N. Claiborne Avenue and St. Peters Street; on the West
Bank at the public library at General DeGaulle and Holiday Avenue. For
info dial 311 or call 658-2299.
Ongoing
Efforts:
WAYS
TO
SUPPORT
NEW
ORLEANS...
To
donate to Katrina Krewe see Donate
link.
Save New Orleans..This could happen
all over again if we don't restore our wetlands. Donate at America's
Wetlands & www.voiceofthewetlands.com
Women
of
the Storm - also supports wetland restoration. Katrina Krewe's
founder and several board and committee
members are also Women of the Storm.
Friends
of New Orleans are looking for a
million friends to declare their
support for New
Orleans and surrounding parishes. Katrina Krewe is a local partner of Friends of N.O. To
learn how to join see above website. Also, check out the film clip they
shot, which focuses on the efforts of many locals, at the All the Kings
Men world premiere in N.O.
Shop
New Orleans has a list of links for some of the local businesses.
Please support them and the many others when you visit.
CLEAN UP GUIDELINES:
Suggestions
for planning
your own clean up:
Make your contacts, plan a
date, time, and meeting spot.. tell everyone to wear a pair of gloves,
bring heavy duty
contractor bags, a rake, broom or shovel, a bottle of water (and
hand wipes). Please see below guidelines for bagging/sorting.
1. Call the Sanitation Dept. to schedule
pick up 658-3800 on your clean up date.
2.
Bag all trash! See link regarding waste. Do not
make the bags too heavy. Place all bags on curbside corners (not
on private property, grass or public neutral ground).
3. Stack all large
debris items neatly in a separate pile. Place away
from polls/posts and
trees.
4. Return all borrowed items back
to the meeting point.
5.
IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE. Every volunteer is responsible for
his/her own
safety and every parent
is responsible for the safety of his/her own children. There are possible risks of participation in clean
up efforts. See below...
Links to information
regarding possible hazardous materials:
http://www.osha-slc.gov/OshDoc/hurricaneRecovery.html
www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/knowhow/
http://forum.doityourself.com/showthread.php?t=243523
http://www.bricksandbrass.co.uk/diy/diydangr.htm
* You
may choose
to get
an updated tetanus shot, as, it's anything goes out there!
We
can either live
with it, or do something about it!! Continue to be pro-active!!
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80% of
New Orleans was affected by Hurricane Katrina:
MUST SEE
VIDEO of Devasted
New Orleans
Times
Picayune depiction of Aug.29, 2005
Debbie Reily's photos
taken October
2005:
Inside
a Lakeview home
Lakeview/West
End
Danielle
Heuer's photos
taken January 2005:
(note water lines)
The
9th ward
Old
Metairie / Lakeview/ Lakewood South
Uptown
New
Orleans East / Mid City
Gentilly
Chalmette
/ Treme
Metairie
Photos
taken in
May 2006 (9 months after
Hurricane Katrina):
New
Orleans East / Gentilly
Superdome
/ 9th Ward / St.Bernard
Old
Metairie / Lakeview / Lakewood South
Midcity
Uptown
Come visit us & see....
Why
N.O. must be saved!
How to
protect our city!!!
"Past Clean Ups"
(Katrina Krewe's efforts) |
The Department of
Sanitation - to report litter/dumping offenders, to schedule
pick up for your clean up effort, or to file complaints, call 658-3800
Neighborhood Debris
Removal
Contacts: Call 311 or 731-8627,
Orleans Parish:
800-849-1355 or 504-658-2299
Jefferson Parish:
888-376-2220
or
985-359-3016
NOPD
Quality
of Life
Officers (to report
dumping/littering complaints
in your district):
1st District -
658-6010
2nd District - 658-6020
3rd District - 658-6030..
4th District - 658-6040
5th District - 658-6050
6th District - 658-6060
7th District - 658-6070
8th District - 658-6080
Call
the state's toll-free hotline, 1
(888) LITRBUG, to report
littering. If caught and convicted, litterers face a minimum $75 fine.
Recycling:
Aluminum
drinking can recycling project at
Sacred Heart. Cans may be dropped off in the recycling bins on
Carondelet Street behind the school at 4521 St. Charles. We will soon
have newspaper recycling too. Cissy Poindexter Tpoindexter1@aol.com
Recycle newspapers and
magazines in parking lot of Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church, corner of Louisiana and Chestnut,
there are bins.
You can recycle your newspapers, metal scrap, cardboard,
copper, paper, aluminum, and all personal electronic devices (including
cell phones) at The Green Project, 2831 Marais St. [map]
during business hours: Tue-Sat, 9-4. phone (504) 945-0240
See more at
Contacts page.
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