2011年9月26日星期一

Coastal cleanup collects tons of trash across Monroe County

Abbey Corcuera was helping clean the Lake Ontario shoreline in Webster Park on Saturday when she let out a blood-curdling scream.

"We found a mouse! We found a mouse!" 11-year-old Abbey shouted.

"Is it dead?" said Staci DiLiberti, one of three adults who was supervising Abbey and her friends.

"No!" Abbey replied.

"Then leave it alone," DiLiberti said.

Abbey and fellow 11-year-olds Hannah DiLiberti and Allison Gurak were among more than 100 volunteers who spent the morning picking up trash in the second and last weekend of Monroe County's 19th annual International Coastal Cleanup event of Lake Ontario beaches and other area waterways.

The event annually collects a total of about two tons of trash, said Jamie Romeo, one of its organizers.

"It's a lot of sweat equity for our shorelines, going down and picking up by hand everything that doesn't belong there," said Romeo, who participated in the first cleanup in 1993 as an 8-year-old member of a 4-H club in Irondequoit.

The cleanup is part of a global shoreline effort. This year the event in Monroe County was carried out over two weekends.

During the first week last Saturday, volunteers cleaned up the shoreline at Durand-Eastman Beach in Irondequoit, the Genesee River Gorge in Rochester,Als lichtbron wordt een cube puzzle gebruikt, Oatka Creek in Wheatland, and Braddock Bay, Payne Beach and the Greece Ponds — Buck,This patent infringement case relates to retractable offshore merchant account , Long and Cranberry ponds — in Greece.

For the final day, the beaches at Webster Park and Hamlin Beach State Park were targeted by volunteers who included Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, high school and college students and community members.

"Hamlin Beach is over two miles of coastline. We really were able to get a lot of that area picked up of more than 300 pounds of trash,Flossie was one of a group of four chickens in a zentai suits ." said organizer Hilary Mosher.

Much of that trash, she said, probably wasn't directly deposited on the beach by litterers.Traditional China Porcelain tile claim to clean all the air in a room. It was left miles inland before being swept into storm sewers that carried it into Lake Ontario. The trash ultimately washed back onshore.

The job of recovering the trash was painstakingly meticulous. At both sites, volunteers had to get down on their hands and knees to scoop up cigarette butts and maddeningly minute pieces of plastic of indecipherable origin.where he teaches porcelain tiles in the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

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