It took muscle, sweat, and a never say die attitude to achieve a stream cleanup in Kalihi on Friday.

The Army brought in the heavy muscle to help out on this project.

"Help out the community, teach soldiers how to give back to the community in which they live, which is also important when they deploy," says U.S. Army Chaplain Paul Blecher.

They lent a helping hands to Kaupa, an organization that works to protect our streams.

"It tends to be close to bridges, people use them as illegal dumping sites. Things that they don't want at their house sometimes they just throw like their kitchen rubbish over the sides," says Dana Gulizia, with Kaupa.

And it wasn't just kitchen supplies the group of Army volunteers from the 205th MI Battalion at Fort Shafter found.

"Well we found a lot of scrap metal, car pars, tires, pipes," says Belcher.

"Pulled a number of things out of this stream in just less than a hours time. You could joke that there was an entire car, tires were found. We saw bumpers, even saw a car door. And it's official we have a car because there is the engine," says KHON2's Jai Cunningham.

"It is amazing what you will find down here. And this is just years and years of layers of rubbish," says Dana Gulizia.

Layers that added up to several hundred pounds worth of junk.