For Fun

LOWELL CANALWATERS CLEANERS QUIZ

At Lowell Canalwaters Cleaners, we like to have a little fun. So here's a little quiz about the canals, and you can also see the lyrics to our own song!

  1. What is the weight of the trash which LCC cleaned out of the waterways?
  2. How much wood have we pulled out?
  3. What live animals have come up in the nets?
  4. What dead animals?
  5. How many dead animals this year?
  6. How many dead animals were taken out in the first year of cleaning?
  7. Which things did we pull out:
    1. couch
    2. dining room table
    3. TV
    4. air conditioner
    5. rugs
    6. treadmill
    7. baseball base
    8. basketball pole and backboard
    9. gun
    10. squarepants spongebob and his friends
    11. hypodermic needles
    12. shark
    13. a lizard
    14. a rat
    15. a human
    16. crack
    17. ID cards
    18. Shoes
    19. Hockey stick
    20. Bed
    21. Microwave
    22. Sleeping bag
    23. A whole car
    24. Desks
    25. Bikes
    26. Tires
    27. Car batteries
    28. Balls
    29. A cow

ANSWERS:

Tons of garbage pulled out: 7

Cords of wood pulled out: 3

Live animals that have come up in the nets: turtles

Dead animals scooped in in the nets: fish (of course), eels, cats, birds

Number of dead animals in nets first year: 30

Number of dead animals in nets in 2007: 3

Items pulled out of the nets:

couches,tables,TVs,air conditioner, rugs, treadmill , baseball base, basketball pole and backboard, gun , squarepants spongebob and his friends, hypodermic needles , shark, a lizard, a rat, a human, crack, ID cards , Shoes, Hockey stick, Bed , Microwave, Sleeping bag, A whole car, Desks , Bikes, Tires, Car batteries, Balls

Items not pulled out of the nets: car, bed, cow

Note: a bed was almost pulled out, but it got away into the river.