From recent research and discussion our team has been trying to understand and figure out what are some important problems surrounding the Schuylkill River. One of the biggest problems that we’ve learned about is the lack of support from communities. When we focus on graffiti, it makes it seem like we’re taking away from the environmental aspect of the EACAP Project. In all actuality, it still is important to our environment. Not only are we letting youth destroy the walls and buildings surrounding the river but we are allowing chemical fumes to be released into the air of the small forested areas of the parks. We find spray paint cans, rappers, spilled paint, and trash on the grounds along side of the places that have been tagged. The same way it is bad to liter on beaches because waves push it into ocean, and animals can die from investing and getting caught in the food, is the same way birds, deer, and many other wildlife can digest and die from the waste left in the parks.
We think that it is important to reach out to the youth in the communities surrounding the SRT that it’s not fair to the wild life, the workers/ volunteers, community, and their selves, to constantly have their nature parks and rivers defaced.