West Point Cadets relax by their quarry of asphalt debris at the American Ballfield Beach, Broad Channel.The American Littoral Society in cooperation with the Jamaica BayEcowatchers, Broad Channel Civic Association, NYCDEP, National Park Service and NYC Parks organized a series of cleanups along the shorelines of Jamaica Bay. Sites cleaned this past weekend included the American Ballfield (Broad Channel), Dubos Point (Arverne), North Channel Bridge (Gateway NRA), and East 10th Road marsh (Broad Channel).
The groups removed an amazing amount of marine debris (approximately 6 tons) with help from local community volunteers and the NYC Dept. of Sanitation. Also on hand as volunteers were Venetia Lannon, director of region 2 NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation, Dan Mundy Sr. and Jr. of the Ecowatchers, Rangers John Tebbetts and Taylor Ramos of NPS and Leah Beckett of NYC Parks.
At the American Ballfield site, about 50 volunteers were joined by a team of West Point Cadets and boy scouts from Troop 282 in Broad Channel. The West Point Cadets helped remove hundreds of pounds of asphalt and other debris from the shoreline to smooth the area for the horseshoe crabs coming ashore next month to lay their eggs - all without breaking rank!
Local youth members of theJamaica Bay Restoration Corps do their share of heavy lifting atEast 10th Road, Broad Channel.At East 10th Road, the clean team included Elizabeth Stoehr and Don Riepe of the Littoral Society, swim and water polo team students from St. Francis College, Carl Quigley (Athletic Coach) and Chris Driscoll (Men's Team Coach), and several youth fromBroad Channel and Rockaway. A special thanks to local residents Ray York, John Weiss and Joe Porto who provided garbage cans, chain saw, a dumpster and lunch for the group - as well as help removing debris!
East 10th Road marsh BEFORE cleanup.At Dubos Point inRockaway, a group of 15 from the Young Professionals of New York Water Engineers Society removed about 2,000 pounds of marine debris from the shoreline and emerging marsh. Earlier in the week, students and faculty from the Dalton School in Manhattan cleaned a stretch of shoreline at the North Channel Bridge. For information about future cleanup and restoration projects in Jamaica Bay contact the American Littoral Society 718-474-0896; email: donriepe@gmail.com.
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