Providing music, particularly local music, can increase event attendance. Adult and youth music acts at the second and third annual Salem Sound Coastwatch Oceanfests, held at Forest River Park in Salem, Mass., helped raise funds and support for Coastwatch's vital watershed programs, including the Salem Sound Clean Beaches and Streams Program.

Public Water at Public Events

Working with the cities of Salem and Beverly, Mass., water buffalo equipment filled with pure tap water prevented a mountain of water bottle trash at the second annual Salem Jazz and Soul Festival on August 16, 2008. Each year SJSF also borrows from the Butt Bin Borrow Program to prevent cigarette butt pollution.

Reducing Bottled Water Waste Onsite

On July 25, 2009 Salem Sound Coastwatch held its fourth annual inner harbor swim races and third annual open water kayak races at Forest River Park, Salem, MA. Fresh public supply water was served using 5 gal. canteens borrowed from the National Guard and compostable sugar cane cups. Coastwatch used CSBWR's canteens for the 2010 Swim N' Fin and again at the Coastal 5k "Run for the Beach."

Supplying public tap water--readily available at the Shoreline 5k's interim water stop in the Beverly Commons--was an easy way to lower this non-profit race's carbon footprint. Thanks to the city of Beverly, Mass., and the National Guard for loaning potable water jugs, more than 250 runners had the opportunity to drink fresh, public tap water out of recyclable paper cups on race day--May 4, 2008.