Meet the Women Over 64 Cleaning Up Cape Cod's Ponds One Dive at a Time
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The Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage (OLAUG), a volunteer group of women over 64, has removed approximately 6,000 pounds of trash from Cape Cod freshwater ponds since 2017, with about 30 active members organizing roughly 20 cleanup dives annually.
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