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...Four years ago, the river was covered with trash,” says Thomas J. McNichol, a retired 69-year-old living in Worcester. “Islands of trash would float back and forth, because it’s not really a river, it’s a dam. You’d see the same trash going back and fourth across the river week after week. A group of us decided one day that we’d clean...
Four days a week from April to October, McNichol and his three other captains lead a crew of up to four volunteers for a full day of picking up trash on the river. The Clean Up Boat is completely the work of volunteers from across Massachusetts who share McNichol’s desire to restore the once-proud nature of the local waterway. Even then-Gov. Mitt Romney once spent a day on the boat...
...McNichol said that he’s excited that the volunteers’ efforts are being put to use in the form of tomorrow’s race and that he hopes the event will show people that “we have this beautiful river right smack dab in the middle of our hometown, and it’s really in good condition...
Most of the trash in the river—plastic and Styrofoam—is removed relatively easily, which bodes well for future Charles River racing prospects, according to McNichol...
Lawaetz said that he’s hopeful that the precedent-setting race McNichol made possible will spread beyond the borders of the small slice of water that separates Boston and Cambridge...