Earth Team Hits The Streets For Spring Cleaning!!!

During the month of March, Earth Team interns from Berkeley and Richmond High schools took to the streets of Richmond and San Pablo to complete the cities’ quarterly on land visual trash assessments (OVTA).

Using ArcGIS surveying tools combined with OVTA protocols, photos, and in-depth training, the interns continue to support trash reduction goals and watershed protection in their communities.

Richmond High interns discussing OVTA criteria and debating the score of the segment being observed.
Each red dot represents an OVTA survey taken by Earth Team interns in March across assigned street segments in San Pablo.
Interns use a combination of visual observation, itemized litter counts, photographs, and trash-capture device identifications to assess each segment, producing a survey that is reviewed by the cities and uploaded to a public dashboard, found here: https://trade-csusr.hub.arcgis.com/pages/kcb-dashboard
All the red dots represent the surveys collected by Earth Team interns in March across the assigned survey segments in the city of Richmond.

Thank you to our partners at the City of Richmond, City of San Pablo along with our grant sponsors at the EPA for continuing to make this work possible.

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