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There will be a free barbecue for volunteers at noon. Details: Supervisor Gioia’s office 510-231-8691 or The Watershed Project 510-665-3430.The Albany Bulb, at the foot of Buchanan Street in Albany, is the focus of a cleanup that needs volunteers for a cleanup from 9 a.m. to noon. Sand-sifting tools are helpful if you have them. Hosted by The Watershed Project in partnership with the City of Albany. Contact Sharon Gibbons for further information at sharon@thewatershedproject.org. Please RSVP for groups of 10 or more. Register onsite or pre-register online here.A Flotsam Flotilla on the shoreline at Barbara and Jay Vincent Park on Peninsula Drive off Marina Bay Parkway in Richmond will be working from 8 a.m. to noon, hosted by The Watershed Project and Rivers for Change. “Join us with your kayak or board for a paddle and trash pickup along the Richmond shoreline.” Lunch at adjacent Shimada Park at noon. Contact John Dye at john@riversforchange.org for more details.The Wildcat Marsh Staging Area between Pittsburg and Gertrude avenues in Richmond will be the site of a cleanup from 9 a.m. to noon. Contact nathan@urbantilth.org for more details.The East Bay Regional Park District is sponsoring cleanups at Point Pinole Regional Shoreline, 5551 Giant Highway in Richmond, and Point Isabel Regional Shoreline, 2701 Isabel St. (at the end of Central Avenue) in Richmond, from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Details: www.ebparks.org/about/getinvolved/volunteer/events.Pinole will hold a cleanup at Bayfront Park, 1 Tennent Ave., from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Registration is required. Call 510-724-9018 for more details.Berkeley-based group Friends of Five Creeks is holding a cleanup from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. along the new trail at Codornices Creek, the only trout stream in Albany and Berkeley. Meet at the Belmont Village senior housing courtyard, just west of 1100 San Pablo Ave. on the creekside trail. Details and RSVP: f5creeks@gmail.com, www.fivecreeks.org.Berkeley is holding a cleanup for all ages from 9 a.m. to noon starting out from the Shorebird Park Nature Center, 160 University Ave. A waiver must be signed for minors. The event will be followed by a raffle from noon to 1 p.m. Details: www.cityofberkeley.info/shorelinecleanup. Car show and chili cookoffThere will be added flavor at the annual Chili Cook Off and Car Show in Rodeo on Sept. 24.A salsa-making competition has been added to the lineup for the event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 24 at Lefty Gomez Recreation Center & Ball Field... (East Bay Times)
ALBANY, N.Y. >> Dredging crews left the Hudson River two years ago, but criticism of the $1.7 billion cleanup is bubbling up again.Advocates who want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to order crews back on the river are expected in Poughkeepsie Wednesday evening as the agency holds a public hearing on its review of the Superfund project.The EPA’s five-year review, released June 1, is the latest flashpoint related to General Electric’s cleanup of polychlorinated biphenyl it discharged in the river until the mid-1970s. PCBs were used as coolants and lubricants in electrical equipment. They are a probable carcinogen and were banned in 1977.The EPA review doesn’t order more cleanup, but the agency is careful to say that’s not a final decision.Advertisement• • •Here’s a look at what’s at stake and what could happen in the wake of GE’s six-year cleanup.DID THE CLEANUP WORK?Boston-based GE removed 2.75 million cubic yards of sediment from a 40-mile stretch of the river north of... (The Daily Freeman)
