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Hofstra journalism student Abdullahi Sada shot video from a skiff that ferried him to an island just south of Bay Park, where he spent the morning shooting footage and collecting trash.

Hofstra journalism students collect sound bites –– and trash –– in the wetlands

Eight Hofstra University graduate journalism students in Adjunct Professor Scott Brinton’s Issues in Science Reporting class grabbed rubber gloves and oversized garbage bags and headed by boat on March 24 to the archipelago of tiny islands and mudflats south of Bay County Park in East Rockaway to join in and report on a massive cleanup of the wetlands. more

4/5/12

Don Harris, vice president of the nonprofit environmental group Operation SPLASH (Stop Polluting Littering And Save Harbors), stood beside a boom used to collect trash from Freeport Creek. The organization’s core mission is cleaning up South Shore wetlands and bays.

Making a SPLASH across the South Shore

Diesel exhaust from nearby boatyards suffused the air as Don Harris cruised north in a 27-foot Carolina skiff up Freeport Creek, past a pair of mute swans that he calls Chip and Ophelia, the towering smokestacks of Freeport Power Plant No. 2, a Town of Hempstead dredging barge and hundreds of boats, many sleek and modern, others abandoned, rotting hulks sinking into the murky water. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/23/11

Werner Freitag, Jack Collins and Capt. Don Harris help the environment.

Making A SPLASH in Bay Park waters

Extreme amounts of shoreline trash have been reported by residents of East Rockaway and Bay Park. Coffee cups, water bottles, and assorted litter can also be seen all over Long Island’s south shore waterways. Many people think that litter in the Bay Park area is a result of careless boaters but that is not the case: street litter from as far north as Garden City washes into storm drains that empty, unfiltered, directly into south shore waterways. more

4/13/11

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