Photo submitted to Times Observer As always, there were bottles and cans aplenty, metal pipe, tires, appliances, and construction materials, removed from the Allegheny River during the annual cleanup. “The clean-up leaders always keep track of the most amazing finds,” organizer David Snyder said. “Saturday’s highlight was a horseshoe-shaped metal object that took up a parking-space-and-a-half while it waited to be wrestled in the metal recycling dumpster. Nate Welker, long-time Cleanup leader, remarked that since he couldn’t lift it, ‘It must weigh at least a thousand pounds.” Dubbed the world’s largest horseshoe, “Historians in the group speculated that it was a bucket handle that had been left behind in the days of regular river dredging.”

Photo submitted to Times Observer

As always, there were bottles and cans aplenty, metal pipe, tires, appliances, and construction materials, removed from the Allegheny River during the annual cleanup. “The clean-up leaders always keep track of the most amazing finds,” organizer David Snyder said. “Saturday’s highlight was a horseshoe-shaped metal object that took up a parking-space-and-a-half while it waited to be wrestled in the metal recycling dumpster. Nate Welker, long-time Cleanup leader, remarked that since he couldn’t lift it, ‘It must weigh at least a thousand pounds.” Dubbed the world’s largest horseshoe, “Historians in the group speculated that it was a bucket handle that had been left behind in the days of regular river dredging.”