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Coalition Against Water Disposal of Contaminated Sediments
Post Office Box 050328
Staten Island, NY 10305
718-873-4291
A Publication of the
Spring 2015
Executive Director
Ida Sanoff
CAWD
Recording Secretary
Daniel Ingellis
NRPA
Treasurer
Membership
Newsletter
Richard Chan
NRPA
East Shore Coordinator:
Dominic Cenatiempo
NRPA
Trustees
Executive Trustee
Jim Scarcella
NRPA
Friends of Clearwater
John Malizia
S. I. Yacht Club,
S. I. Tuna Club, FCA
Cindy Zipf
Clean Ocean Action
Charles Perry
Protectors of Pine Oak
Woods
Tony Rose
Staten Island Sport Divers
Andrew Willner
NY/NJ Baykeeper
(Ret)
Dr. John T. Tancredi
Molloy College
Dr. Martin Schreibman
Brooklyn College AREAC
In this Edition
PARTNERSHIP FOR PARKS ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
Report by Jim Scarcella
Partnership for Parks hosted their annual
conference at NYU Law School on Saturday
April 11, 2015. PEP is a joint partnership of
NYC Parks Department and City Parks
Foundation. The effort to maintain and
improve our parks is superbly supplemented
by volunteers like the Natural Resources
Protective Association, who regularly clean
our beaches, parks and wetlands.
Commissioner
Mitchell
Silver
was
introduced by PEP acting Director Seth
Jones. The PEP gathering was improved by
our
volunteers coordinator
Stefanie
Gutierrez and acting Boro Commissioner
Mike Schnall.
Citizens Committee for NYC and other
resource groups then gave a presentation
on grants and other help available to our
friends of parks and open space. We all had
a chance to ask questions of our
Coordinator and Parks Administrators.
The arrangements included a nice fresh
lunch and beverages It was a great
conference and we came away with great
ideas and better networking.
Page 1 Partnership For Parks Annual Confer-
ence
Page 1-2 Joys of Volunteering
Page 2 Gateway Park, Great Kills Cleanup
Page 2-3 The Floatables Survey Program
Page 3 A Unique Opportunity to Explore a
New Park
Page 3
Crescent Beach North Cleanup
Page 4
Living Breakwaters
Page 4-5 Vessels Play a Vital Role in Contrib-
uting to Pollution in Our Waterways
Page 5 Kemp Ridley Sea Turtle
Page 6 Upcoming Events
In Memory of Edward “Kerry” Sullivan
THE JOYS OF VOLUNTEERING
By Ida Sanoff
As you know, all of us here at NRPA are
volunteers. Most of us are involved with
more than one volunteer organization or
project. And we work and have families and
social lives too.
Every so often though, you meet someone
new and the conversation turns to your vol-
unteer activities. Then, the question comes
up: Why do you do this? After all, volunteers
don’t get paid. Heck, sometimes it can even
cost you to be a volunteer. You use your
own phone, your own computer, your own
car, your own Metrocard. You work all day
and then you do more work for free. You
might be chomping down your dinner with
the phone tucked under your ear while
you’re on an important conference call. Why
on earth would anyone want to do this?
Aaaah, but those people just don’t under-
stand what it’s all about!
We get to see parts of the city and do things
that most people will never get to do, like
watch a bald eagle soar over the top of a
former landfill in Brooklyn. Or go on a boat
