Since its creation in 1967, and many years before, construction waste, run off from Co-op City and river floatables from sites north of the Sanctuary have accumulated in the Thomas Pell Sanctuary. The Sanctuary, which is located on the east bank of the Hutchinson River in Pelham Bay Park, is the second largest salt marsh habitat in New York City. (Only Jamaica Bay is larger.) Because the Sanctuary is a salt marsh, it is not accessible by land and must be cleaned up from the Hutchinson River.
To the best of our knowledge, there has never been a major cleanup effort, mainly because of limited access to the Sanctuary (water access only), lack of knowledge by the community of the existence of this Sanctuary and the cost and complexity of a clean-up.
Waste on the banks of the Hutchinson River in the Pell Sanctuary
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Clean-up date Sunday, September 26th
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For more details, contact
the HRRP at
or
718-885-9653
9/3/2010