Do you know what goes into the beautification of one of the top attractions in the city?
“There’s lots of trees and vegetation. Those trees shed their leaves. There’s human made debris as well. So each day, we take our Lady Eco Cleaning Barge out twice a day to sweep the river to collect all of that debris,” Kelly Saunders, with the City of San Antonio’s Center City Development & Operations Department said.
Lady Eco is one of a kind and cleans up more than 115 tons of debris every year, going around the 3.2 mile River Walk loop. “It has pneumatic arms that stretch out on each side, two of them. And then the nets attach to each arm that collects the floating debris. And then we collect. We also use nets, kind of like a pool net almost, to scoop up anything that it misses,” Saunders said.
Lady Eco is just part of the team, with more than 25 people committed to keeping the area and ecosystem clean. And that includes collecting, power washing, and landscaping.“Well, the River Walk is one of the top five tourist attractions in the state of Texas. So it’s very important to us that it looks beautiful and it’s a welcoming place for our residents and for our visitors.
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