On Saturday, March 24, 2007, volunteers from the Friends of Pews Creek, Middletown Environmental Commission, Bayshore Regional Watershed Council, and Brookdale Community College WaterWatch gathered to clean up Pews Creek near the Bray Avenue Bridge .  

Well over 500 pounds of trash and debris were removed from the site.  The volunteers removed everything from shopping carts, tires, appliances, batteries, car parts, beer bottles, fast food containers, cigarette butts, plastic, cans, and other assorted trash.

Trash in water bodies contributes to water and visual pollution and detracts from the aesthetic qualities of the landscape. Excessive amounts of trash can clog up storm drains and lead to flooding. It also poses a threat to wildlife and human health by acting as a choking hazard to wildlife and harmful bacteria to humans.

Thanks & appreciation goes to Joe & Kari Martin for coordinating the clean up event, and to Fran Donnelly, Steve Taylor, Joe Reynolds, and to Katie Feeny and her Brookdale WaterWatch volunteers for their help. They collected a truck-load of trash in just one afternoon from Pews Creek.

By participating in stream clean-ups you can help to improve water quality, increase the aesthetic quality of the Bayshore landscape, and decrease health and safety threats to both wildlife and humans.

Below is a photo log of the clean -up. Photos by Joe Reynolds

TRASH IN PEWS CREEK BEFORE THE CLEAN UP

Remnants of a brush fire that likely occurred from someone thoughtlessly throwing out a lighted cigarette butt into the undergrowth or onto the sidewalk where it rolled into the nearby vegetation.

Volunteers in action cleaning up Pews Creek

        OUR WONDERFUL WETLANDS         

        ARE NOT TRASH CANS!        

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