Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Jakes Landing, Lake Murray, Lexington, SC
7 September, 2019
- Team Leader
- Tim Hasty
- Number of Participants
- 12
- Total Debris Collected
- 172 lbs (measured)
34.027536, -81.225642
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Jakes Landing, Lake Murray, Lexington, SC
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Columbia Scuba SC
- City
- COLUMBIA
- Country
- United States
- Date
- 7 September, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 90 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 34.027536
Longitude: -81.225642
- Weather Conditions
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–20 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 1644.91 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- Fresh Water Lake
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 16 |
| Buckets, Drums & Jerrycans-2 Liters Or More | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 31 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 4 |
| Plastic Fragments | 6 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 34 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 90 |
| Cars & Car Parts | 1 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 4 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 1 |
| Rubber Fragments | 12 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 8 |
| Cloth Fragments | 6 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 1 |
| Computer Equipment & Other Electronic Devices | 3 |
| Toys | 1 |
Additional Information
Not aware of a specific event. This is a marina on our local lake that to our knowledge, has never had a cleanup done. We had a specific time frame to work and found that the farther away from the marina office, the heavier the debris. We will be conducting an additional cleanup.
Boat prop, VCR
beverage cans
plastic cups
Comments and Feedback
The tools we received from Project Aware were very helpful to us for organizing and conducting the survey!
