Hundreds of volunteers braved chilly temperatures on Saturday to participate in the Great Texas River Clean-up, an initiative that also involves municipalities and businesses along the entire 90-mile length of the spring-fed San Marcos River.
While the day of the cleanup is obvious within the city — canoes and kayaks are in the river and people with bags of trash are walking the banks of the river and its tributaries— what goes on along the lower river is largely hidden from public view.
Tom Goynes, proprietor of San Marcos River Retreat, said there were about 100 people — many Texas Water Safari-hardened paddlers, who volunteered their time on the stretch of the river from Stokes Park to Gonzales, where the San Marcos merges with the Guadalupe River.
