Around 150 primary school students will swarm down to Takitimu Drive reserves tomorrow for the first stream clean-up of the year.

Students from Pillans Point and Mataphi Primary Schools will start from both ends of the reserve, from the Domain and the archery Park, says Tauranga City Council consents officer Toby Barach.

Pillans Point pupils with bags of rubbish collected from an earlier mission to Sulphur Point. From left: Amaya Shipton, 7, Estee Taylor, 6, Lissy Brader-Steed, 7, and Simone Coldrick, 7. Photo: Tracy Hardy.

And he's hoping for a good haul.

'We haven't done one there for a good number of years,” says Toby.

'We have done the area in conjunction with clean-ups that have covered the whole estuary, but for this one we are just focusing on the area between the Domain and the Archery Park. The rubbish there is quite bad.

'There's a fair amount of rubbish in the upper areas where it's quite overgrown, and a lot of the rubbish hasn't been removed for quite a long time.

'They will be doing the walkways, primarily, but going up into the bush as well. We are focussing on the running track from Third Avenue and along the bottom to the Domain.”

Where it is accessible, they will be taking a look at the tidal pools between the highway and the walking tracks, adds Toby.

'It will be interesting to see what we find,” he says.

'The kids usually pick up some interesting stuff. There's quite a few homeless people along that area so there's quite a bit of discarded stuff. I suspect we might pick up a mattress of two, and some other interesting bits.”

It is the first of a number of stream clean ups for 2015.

'The plan is to meet at The Domain about 11am and then split them up,” says Toby.

All 140 or so estuary cleaners will meet back at the Domain to sort their finds for recycling and to have lunch.