Oyster Bay To Host Annual Harbor And Beach Cleanup

The Town of Oyster Bay, in partnership with the North Oyster Bay Baymen's Association and Friends of the Bay, will hold the annual harbor and beach cleanup on April 13.

"This great event features Town employees and volunteers rolling up their sleeves and working side by side to clean-up the beaches and shoreline areas along Oyster Bay Harbor," Supervisor Joseph Saladino said. "With Earth Day right around the corner, this important environmental initiative is the perfect way to pitch in and help make a difference!"

Volunteers are invited to participate in the cleanup, which will run from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The meeting place will be Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park launching ramps and waterfront gazebo off of Larrabee Avenue, Oyster Bay. Additional locations for the clean-up include Theodore Roosevelt Beach in Oyster Bay, Stehli Beach in Bayville and Centre Island Beach in Bayville. Typically, in year's past, harbor and beach clean-up events have resulted in about forty thousand pounds of debris collected by volunteers.

Councilwoman Johnson said, "Each year, countless amounts of paper, food, plastics and other trash are discarded on beaches or dumped overboard from recreational and commercial vessels. Allowing this litter to remain on our shorelines will only lead to increasingly worse damage for the environment."

Individuals and groups who are interested can get further information by calling the Town's Department of Environmental Resources at (516) 677-5943 or visit www.oysterbaytown.com<http://www.oysterbaytown.com>.