{"id":1808,"date":"2026-07-17T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:49:06","slug":"2025-gac-emerson-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/2025-gac-emerson-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Great American Cleanup City of Emerson Summary | October 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/city-emerson-logo.jpg\" alt=\"City of Emerson logo\" class=\"wp-image-1809\" style=\"width:185px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/city-emerson-logo.jpg 720w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/city-emerson-logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/city-emerson-logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Emerson held a Great American Cleanup event in the fall of 2025 (Saturday October 11, 2025). The cleanup had two main locations: Waterside Estates (Oct. 25) and Downtown Emerson (with registration at Emerson City Hall). The cleanup began at 9:00 am and concluded at 12:00 pm. The waterside site had 7 volunteers, and the downtown group had 26 volunteers. A total of 33 volunteers for the fall cleanup date (volunteer hours 33 x 3= 99 total hours).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/gac-2025-emerson-group-1024x768.png\" alt=\"Group photo of City of Emerson volunteers\" class=\"wp-image-1812\" style=\"width:554px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/gac-2025-emerson-group-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/gac-2025-emerson-group-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/gac-2025-emerson-group-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/gac-2025-emerson-group.png 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The waterside group collected 13 bags of litter, while the downtown group collected 62 bags. The weight from the downtown cleanup trash was 800 pounds. The weight from the waterside cleanup was 260 pounds, making it a combined total of 1,060 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"407\" height=\"146\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/waterside-logo.png\" alt=\"Waterside logo\" class=\"wp-image-1811\" style=\"width:244px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/waterside-logo.png 407w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/waterside-logo-300x108.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/WE-25-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Group photo of Waterside volunteers\" class=\"wp-image-1810\" style=\"width:583px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/WE-25-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/WE-25-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/WE-25-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/WE-25-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/03\/WE-25-2.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Emerson held a Great American Cleanup event in the fall of 2025 (Saturday October 11, 2025). The cleanup had two main locations: Waterside Estates (Oct. 25) and Downtown Emerson (with registration at Emerson City Hall). The cleanup began at 9:00 am and concluded at 12:00 pm. The waterside site had 7 volunteers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project-summaries","tag-2025-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}