Greater Bugess Roadside Cleanup

To the Communities of the Burgess Community

The Greater Burgess Community Association needs your help.

We're sure you realize the importance of a litter-free Burgess.

We are organizing our first Burgess Community Cleanup and we intend to make it a success.
Our goal is to involve Burgess residents in improving our community's appearance and fostering neighborhood pride. Your help is needed to promote this effort and to help secure volunteers.

What we need from you is someone willing to lead your group's participation and to recruit volunteers. The more volunteers the better, but if only a few volunteers from each of the forty-plus neighborhoods in Burgess show up March 15th, we can muster a workforce capable of substantially bettering the appearance of our community. The actual time needed for our initial cleanup will take just a couple of hours that Saturday morning and will make a big difference.

We teamed up with Keep Horry County Beautiful and several business sponsors to further our efforts. Cleanup participants will receive incentives such as a free t-shirt to all those who preregister and possibly a free breakfast biscuit and coffee and/or lunch snack on the day of the cleanup.

The presence of litter in our communities adversely affects our quality of life and property values.
According to a study conducted for Keep America Beautiful, litter reduces property values by a little over 7%. That means for a $150,000 home in our community, litter in the area degrades the value of that home by roughly $11,000.

Plus, litter has environmental consequences. It can accumulate and clog our storm drains and stormwater systems, which could lead to flooding in the case of severe storms or hurricanes.

Litter along our community roadways reflects on us, our values and on the expectations we have for ourselves and the community in which we live. Please provide Al Jordan or Scott Maxwell with the name, email address and phone number of a Cleanup Leader for your neighborhood by Saturday, February 15th, and help to better Burgess.

Sincerely,

Al Jordan  
President                                                         
Greater Burgess Community Association                    843.215.1473  

Scott MaxwellNeighborhood Coordinator                                                       843.240.2919

maxwellkscott@yahoo.com

http://greaterburgesscommunity.org