Mari-Osa Trash Tally!

Mari-Osa Dump Clean-up March 1-2, 2008
Mari-Osa MDC Public Boat Access

photos by Lindsay Tempinson and Jen Courtney
Tally meticulously maintained by "Sedalia" Tim Clanton

Total Volunteers: 94
MRR Crew: 18
Boats: 4 (3 Missouri River Relief boats and 1 Missouri
Department of Conservation)
Stream Teams: 1875, 1876, 2660, 2948, 3131, 741, 987, 549,
2489, 2793
Rivermiles: 0.5
Scrap Tons: 13.2
Landfill Tons: 5.5 tons
Tires: 79
River level: 11.5 feet

As volunteers peeled away layers of this old dump, some amazing historical objects were revealed and then removed. Most folks went home with a cool old bottle or trash treasure in their pockets. We had tried in vain to get an anthropologist to come along and study the dump contents, but instead, everyone became an anthropologist!

Filling four 30-yard dumpsters of scrap metal and one 30-yard dumpster of landfill, we found (at least):

212 bags of trash
195 tin/steel cans
196 buckets
161 barrels
48 tubs
2 freon/gas cylinders
34 refrigerators
49 hot water heaters
39 stoves
7 furnaces
10 kitchen sinks
9 rusty stoves
1 baby stroller
1 1960s plastic microscope
1 water logged brassierre
1 microwave
1 television
1 oil pump
1 iron jack
1 furnace
1 shortwave tube radio
1 computer
2 baby dolls
1 typewriter
1 bbq grill barrel
1 elementary school desk
1 camping thermos
1 box fan
5 dryers
1 steel & wooden wagon tongue
1 “Rug Doctor” carpet cleaner
1 large Kelvinator sign
1 juke box
1 sewing machine stand
2 AC units
60 washing machines

2 wringer washers
2 toilets
79 tires
35 car body parts & panels
1 pink 1950s Ford
1 rusty hood of a 1956 DeSota
1 front fender of a 1949 Studebaker
1 Ford clutch pressure plate (1963)
2 Cadillac hub caps
1 blue 1956 Pontiac
5 gas tanks
12 wheels
8 car seats
4 mufflers
9 gas cans
4 car batteries
5 Missouri license plates (1976, 1930, 1931, 1971)
10 car seat springs
2 clay pipes
19 lengths of guttering
786 assorted scraps of rusty metal (sheet-stamped-angle-tube)
34 panels or rolls of fencing
16 pieces of barbed wire
12 pieces of 1” wire cable
158 pieces of steel wire (small to large)
74 pieces of structural iron and tube
14 pieces of cast iron
23 bed frame
37 bed springs
2 stereos
7 gas grills
2 gas push mowers
1 roaster oven
108 cooking utensils
2 big wheels
1 bicycle
1 ½ tricycles
1 unicycle
1 office chair
1 enamel chamber pot “thunder bucket” shot full of bullet holes
7 metal chairs
4 lamps
36 metal cabinets & shelving
2 bicycle wheels
1 snow sled
3 commercial clothes dryer
1 ironing machine
1 hand iron
1 ornate cast iron wood stove
1 porcelain bathtub in pieces