Heh! It's a shallow creek. Might wear waders. He found a gigantic ladder once, during creek cleanup...22 feet long aluminum ladder!
It just irritates me that he's "required" to volunteer his own time to do this (for work)...they do pay him overtime, but still...it's a volunteer conservation organization and the city has him do it because they can brag about how they're involved in protecting the invironment.
I would rather it be TRULY volunteer...Steve would still do it, because it also is something that looks good to his instructors at school. It just rankles me that his job makes him do it. Probably irrationally and I probably wouldn't even be upset if he hadn't been made to "volunteer" for the Household Polution Collection Event just LAST weekend! That was for the Met, you know? The recycling organization?
OT, does your job require you to do all this environmenatal extra credit?
No it's not required. If I recall correctly, they did have volunteer event doing some clean up last year (might be yearly....don't know...) but they didn't get paid for it. Oh, I think they got a pancake breakfast. I don't know if this volunteer effort makes your personnel record or not.