EARTH DAY SHORELINE SWEEP 2016 - EAST HAMPTON TOWN

Thanks to Dell Cullum, East Hampton Town had its 3rd Annual Shoreline Beach Sweep.  Dell organized local environmentalists throughout the town to put aside April 23rd to give our beautiful beaches a good spring cleaning. He hoped this would be a trash clean-up day like no other.

Members from the East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue and swimmers from the East Hampton Hurricane Swim Team gathered at Georgica Beach for the 3rd Annual Beach Sweep.

From left to right - Owen McCormac, Helene Forst, Emmett McCormac, Olivia Brabant, Ethan McCormac, and Aidan McCormac helped pick up trash from the entrance of Georgica Beach all the way to the pond and back.

We were proud to have collected a lot of trash - ropes and plastics, cans and bottles. Two of the kids got community service for the time spent cleaning up one of their favorite community beaches.

Dell said that, "Organizing the annual Shoreline Sweep with CCOM's Great Montauk Clean Up took a few emails and an okey dokey, but it all worked itself out."  Many other groups joined in the effort - East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue, the Custodians of Lazy Point, East Hampton Middle School Surfrider Club, East Coast Surfer Girls, Amagansett Chamber of Commerce and several more. What's so impressive to me was that the list grew and grew until every beach was covered in the town. Dell's goal was to gather awesome environmentally compassionate folks and create a gigantic force to universally help remove trash and debris from Wainscott to Montauk. I'm proud to say, we did accomplish that. We did make one huge difference this year as we celebrated Earth Day and showed our planet, particularly our home town, that we cared. Kyril Bromley, a photographer from the East Hampton Press, shot this picture of members of East Hampton Ocean Rescue and the Hurricanes swim team while they were helping to clean up Georgica Beach. From left to right are: Aidan McCormac, Joan Ross, Helene Forst, Olivia Brabant, Stephanie Brabant, Owen McCormac, Jack Forst, Ethan McCormac, and Emmet McCormac. MY HEARTFELT THANKS GO OUT TO DELL FOR ALL HE DOES FOR EAST HAMPTON TOWN. ​