Annual Long Island Sound Cleanup: West Haven dataes slated

Thanks to today's Hartford Courant Article entitled "Teams want clean beaches: Project targets shoreline trash", I learned about the annual Long Island Sound cleanup month (September), which has NOT been well publicized in our area. West Haven is home to 25% of Connecticut's publicly accessible beaches.

This event is sponsored by Save the Sound, which, from their website:

Save the Sound, a program of Connecticut Fund for the Environment, has been working to protect and preserve Long Island Sound since the early 1970’s. Save the Sound coordinates beach cleanups along the Long Island Sound shore in Connecticut and is the Connecticut State Coordinator for the International Coastal Cleanup.

In a new initiative to further protect Long Island Sound, Save the Sound designed the Clean Up Your Act program to address the on-going need to clean up floatable debris – better known as litter.

From the Save the Sound's list of Cleanup Events there are only two days and teams currently registered to clean up the Sound:

West Haven Beach (near Capt. Galley's Restaurant)	9-16-06 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.	Vincent Breslin (co-coord w/ Robert Marra)	Vincent Breslin, (203) 392-6602, or e-mail breslinv1@southernct.edu
Sandy Point	9-24-06 9 a.m.	Michelle LeMere	(203) 787-0646 Ext. 104 (day), or (203) 937-8034 (eve.), mlemere@cfenv.org

If you wish to volunteer to head up a cleanup, or if you have a group who is willing to volunteer their time:

For more information on volunteering for an upcoming cleanup day, or if your local community group is interested in coordinating a cleanup event, please contact Save the Sound at 1-888-728-3547 (888-SAVE-LIS)

or you can visit the signup page on their web site.