Saturday, September 16. 10am-1pm. Volunteers needed to help clean up Oyster Shell Park in Norwalk! Volunteers will weigh the collected, bagged trash, categorize it and report it the Ocean Conservancy to help them track and eliminate ocean debris as part of International Coastal Cleanup 2017. Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) is the largest volunteer effort of its kind.
Every September for more than 30 years, ICC has motivated over 11.5 million people from around the world to pick up over 210 million pounds of trash from nearly 390,000 miles of shoreline, according to Save the Sound.
The Norwalk River watershed community is part of that statistic, having participated in the ICC for 7 years. Volunteers meet at Heritage Park by Ann and North Water Streets in Norwalk. Lunch provided by The Sheffield Sono Apartments in the clubhouse at 55 Water Street. The cleanup is co-sponsored by NRWA, Woodcock Nature Center, Norwalk Land Trust, Harbor Watch, Grace Farms, Keep Norwalk Beautiful and The Sheffield Sono. Waterproof footwear advised. Families welcome.
Rain date: Sunday Sept. 17. For more information and to register, contact NRWA at 877-NRWA-INFO or info@norwalkriver.org.
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