Description
The Park and especially Laurel Brook, which runs through it, is littered with plastic bags, candy wrappers, beverage containers, and various other trash, apparently discarded into the storm sewers, which drain into Laurel Brook, which drains into the Bronx River, which drains into Long Island Sound.
There is to be a Spring clean up on April 27 and 28. Wear waterproof boots if possible or be prepared to climb slopes around the edges of the park and along the brook. Heavy lifting opportunities are available.
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guy pardee (Invité)
My name is Guy and earned my love of nature growing up along its edge. Although iI now live slightly north my work now brings me back to the area. The other day i had the opportunity to stroll through this lovely would lot to discover a treasure of plant and animal species, likely because you simply dont have the deer populations that many communities do. The Bronx River Alliance has begun to focus energies north of the city line, and Laurel Brook and its dense canopy are vital to its restoration. Would anyone be interested in doing more to preserve this local jewel and wildlife refuge from saburbia. If so please contact me at anytime that you come across this note at gpardee@thecareoftrees.com
DCD (Utilisateur inscrit)
guy pardee (Utilisateur inscrit)
DCD (Utilisateur inscrit)
Batman Returns (Utilisateur inscrit)
DCD (Utilisateur inscrit)
After very rain there is a significant amount of trash that appears in Laurel Brook from the storm drain.
After many visits to the Park most afternoons and on weekend evenings, usually by youths from our friendly neighbor to the North (Bronxville), there are beverage bottles, sometimes with a small hole burned in them (presumably to make them serve as a bong), sometimes with a strong skunky aroma, bottle caps, napkins, food containers left behind. Glass bottles inevitably lead to broken glass.
In addition, the edges of the Park are constantly subjected to litter from workmen eating lunch and from mow-and-blow "landscapers" who toss masonry, flower pots, rotten wood etc. into the Woods because it is easier to do so rather than bring the material to a dump. Though users of the park sometimes pick up what is near the paths, the streams require cleanup using waterproof boots, so a group effort takes place once or twice a year.
Clos Allison Cummings (Administrateur)