Sandy Point

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2011: SAVE THE SOUND AND LAND TRUST OF WEST HAVEN TO HOLD COASTAL CLEANUP AS PART OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL EFFORTS

Part of a global effort to stop litter at its source

New Haven, CT – On Saturday, September 24, 2011, Save the Sound, a program of the Connecticut Fund for the Environment, in partnership with Restore America’s Estuaries, a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and the Land Trust of West Haven, will hold a coastal cleanup at Sandy Point Beach in West Haven, Connecticut, as part of the Ocean Conservancy’s 2011 International Coastal Cleanup, and in recognition of National Estuaries Day. Both are part of a global effort to protect the world’s waterways and estuaries. Volunteers will gather to catalog and remove debris, with the goal of making Connecticut’s shoreline and waterways safer for visitors and wildlife.

Over the past 25 years, Ocean Conservancy’s ICC has become the world’s largest volunteer effort for ocean health. Nearly nine million volunteers from 152 countries and locations have cleaned 145 million pounds of trash from the shores of lakes, streams, rivers, and the ocean on just one day each year. In 2010, Save the Sound volunteers picked up nearly 19,000 pounds of trash from 64 miles of Connecticut shoreline.

WHO:
SAVE THE SOUND
RESTORE AMERICA’S ESTUARIES
LAND TRUST OF WEST HAVEN
WHERE:
SANDY POINT
Beach Street
West Haven, CT
WHEN:
Saturday, September 24, 2011
9 am – 12 noon