Short notice..
Tonight, Thursday, February 1, there is an emergency open forum at URI Bay
Campus, Corless Auditorium to discuss the recent trash disaster on
Matunuck beaches.
The Point Judith dredging project is dumping the (supposedly) clean material on
the beaches at Matunuck, but it seems the material is contaminated with a lot of
submerged trash which now litters the shoreline.
Aluminum cans with the pull tabs, fishing line and nets, rubber boots and foul
weather gear, old tires, filet knives, scrap metal, circuit boards, oils rags
and filters, lobster claw bands (by the thousands), and countless other pieces
of trash are now on the shore.
WHAT: Public open forum to discuss the issue of trash washing up on the
southern shores of Rhode Island
WHEN: Thursday, February 1st, 2007 at 6 p.m.
WHERE: Corless Auditorium, URI Bay Campus, Narragansett, RI
DIRECTIONS:
http://www.gso.uri.edu/aboutGSO/directions.html