OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Clean Communities Program, The City’s Environmental Commission and Clean Ocean Action are sponsoring a Spring Beach Sweep on Saturday, April 30th from 9am to 12:30pm. The City invites all residents, schools, business groups and families to join the sweep along the South Jersey coast for the semiannual “counted cleanup” on the beaches in Ocean City.
The City asks volunteers to meet at the Music Pier, located at Moorlyn Terrace and the Boardwalk, or at the 57th Street Beach to receive instructions and clean up supplies.
Organizers will form teams of volunteers to pick up litter on the beach. Participants will record the collected litter on data cards. Clean Ocean Action will enter the information into a national database of marine debris.
Clean Ocean Action’s (COA’s) Beach Sweeps is one of the longest running cleanups of its kind in the world. In 1985, COA launched the region’s first Beach Sweeps program with only 75 volunteers to rid beaches of unsightly and harmful debris. Today over 85,000 citizens remove nearly 4.5 million pieces of trash from New Jersey’s beaches, rivers, lakes and streams during this semi annual event.
UPDATE:
Beach Sweeps will be taking place at these locations:
Avalon – 30th St. Beach
Cape May- Nature Center of Cape May (1600 Delaware Ave.) PENDING
Del Haven – Sunray Beach at Roosevelt Ave.
North Wildwood – 15th Ave. at Beach Patrol Building
Ocean City – (2 sites)- 1. 9th St. Music Pier – 2. 57th St. Beach
Sea Isle City – JFK Blvd. Beach
Strathmere – Webster Ave. Beach
Stone Harbor – 95th St. Beach
Wildwood – Poplar Ave. Beach
Wildwood Crest-Rambler Road
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