NCHS students clean up litter along the Norwalk River near the Maritime Aquarium (Contributed Photo)
A group of New Canaan High School students volunteered time to cleaning up litter along the Norwalk River recently.
Organized by NCHS junior Paul Gelhaus, the students are members of the NCHS crew team that rows at the Maritime Rowing Club in Norwalk. The group coordinated the effort with the Maritime Aquarium.
“I have been rowing on the Norwalk River for six years and I know I speak for many of my fellow rowers when I say I appreciate having such a wonderful waterway in my backyard and I feel a certain responsibility to maintain it,” Gelhaus said in a release “With this in mind, I was thinking of rallying members of our rowing club to pick up litter along the river’s edge.”
The group started by the municipal parking lot near the IMAX Theater and the docks of the Maritime Aquarium and Norwalk Seaport Association, and moved north to the public picnic pavilion near the Aquarium’s main entrance. The Maritime Aquarium provided gloves, garbage bags and poles that have “grabbers” on the end for picking up glass and other at-risk items.
“While the Aquarium, with limited resources, works to keep the riverbank clean and maintained, the Norwalk River is a tidal river that constantly replenishes the riverbank with litter. So when Paul asked, we said yes – and thanks,” Maritime Aquarium publicist Dave Sigworth added in the release.
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