Duane's Environmental Activities

I've been volunteering for quite a bit of Hurricane Sandy recovery work and other related environmental cleanups here at the Jersey Shore (March, 2012 through the present). The lion's share of that work has been in Sea Bright, Union Beach, Port Monmouth, Shark River Bay, Sandy Hook and Long Branch, which were all especially hard hit by Hurricane Sandy. I do most of these cleanups with some of our local watershed organizations, including the Bayshore Regional Watershed Council (BRWC), the Whale Pond Brook Watershed Association (WPBWA), Clean Ocean Action (COA), and the Red Bank Environmental Commission. One of the cleanups was covered in an article in RedBankGreen.com and I'm a little embarrassed by the particular quote of mine contained in the article (in my defense I was more than a little frustrated working on such a nasty illegal dump site on the banks of the Swimming River). A more recent article in the Asbury Park Press covered a Union Beach wetlands cleanup I participated in with the Bayshore Regional Watershed Association. Overall it's been a highly rewarding experience, mostly due to all of the really fine people I've met in the process. Also, at the end of most of these days you feel like you've done something important and have made at least some small positive contribution to the universe. That may be illusory but I choose to think it's true.

Here's a list of the environmental cleanups and disaster recovery efforts I've participated in over the last few years. I include photo collages with some of these.

• March 24, 2012: Wetlands cleanup near Swimming River near Red Bank Primary School with Red Bank EC
  
• October 20, 2012: Cleanup of an illegal dump site near Swimming River at end of Drs. James Parker Boulevard with Red Bank EC
  
• November 15, 2012: Post-Sandy disaster relief in Union Beach with Jersey Cares
• November 16, 2012: Post-Sandy disaster relief in Sea Bright
  
• November 17, 2012: Post-Sandy wetlands cleanup of Deal Lake with COA
• November 19,20,21,23,27, 2012: Post-Sandy disaster relief in Sea Bright
  
• December 1, 2012: Post-Sandy wetlands cleanup at Ross Island with WPBWA
  
• December 8, 2012: Post-Sandy cleanup at Shark River
  
• January 5, 2013: Post-Sandy cleanup of NJ Repertory Theater property for visiting actors, Long Branch
• January 12, 2013: Post-Sandy wetlands cleanup of Lake Takanassee, Long Branch with WPBWA
  
• February 23, 2013: Post-Sandy cleanup at Sandy Hook with COA
• March 23, 2013: Post-Sandy wetlands cleanup of Lake Takanassee, Long Branch with WPBWA and COA (was COA "Captain" of the cleanup)
  
• April 27, 2013: Cleanup of an illegal dump site near Swimming River at end of Drs. James Parker Boulevard with Red Bank EC and COA
  
• May 5, 2013: Post-Sandy wetlands cleanup at Comptons Creek in Belford with BRWC
  
• May 10, 2013: Horseshoe crab monitoring and tagging at Sandy Hook with BRWC
  
• May 18, 2013: Post-Sandy cleanup on Ross Island, Long Branch with WPBWA
• May 24, 2013: Horseshoe crab monitoring and tagging at Sandy Hook with BRWC
  
• June 8, 2013: Horseshoe crab monitoring and tagging at Sandy Hook with BRWC
• June 15, 2013: Watershed cleanup in Ocean Township with WPBWA (Captain)
• June 22, 2013: Cleanup of Shark River Bay with COA
  
• June 23, 2013: Horseshoe crab monitoring and tagging at Sandy Hook with BRWC
• October 19, 2013: Cleanup of an illegal dump site near Swimming River at end of Drs. James Parker Boulevard with Red Bank EC
  
• November 16, 2013: Post-Sandy wetlands cleanup of East Creek in Union Beach with BRWC
  
• November 23, 2013: Wetlands cleanup of Natco Creek with BRWC
• March 8, 2014: Wetlands cleanup in Ocean Township with WPBWA
• March 15, 2014: Wetlands cleanup of Waackaack Creek in Keansburg with BRWC
  
• March 22, 2014: Wetlands cleanup near Chapin Ave. in Red Bank with Red Bank EC and Sierra Club
  
• May 28, 2014: Horseshoe crab monitoring and tagging at Sandy Hook with BRWC
  
• June 13, 2014: Horseshoe crab monitoring and tagging at Sandy Hook with BRWC
• June 27, 2014: Horseshoe crab monitoring and tagging at Sandy Hook with BRWC
• October 25, 2014: Wetlands cleanup of Swimming River near Maple Ave. with Red Bank EC
• November 8, 2014: Wetlands cleanup of Flat Creek in Hazlet with BRWC
  
• April 11, 2015: Wetlands cleanup of Flat Creek in Union Beach with BRWC
  
• April 12, 2015: Wetlands cleanup in Ocean Township with WPBWA
  
• April 18, 2015: Wetlands cleanup of Waackaack Creek in Keansburg with BRWC
  
• April 25, 2015: Wetlands and beach cleanup at Sandy Hook with COA
• May 9, 2015: Wetlands cleanup of Chingarora Creek in Keyport with BRWC
  
• May 18, 2015: Horseshoe crab monitoring and tagging at Sandy Hook with BRWC
• June 2, 2015: Horseshoe crab monitoring and tagging at Sandy Hook with BRWC