The organization sponsors activities such as river cleanups, adoption of stretches of the river, and educational talks pertaining to the river.

Eager to reach out to young people before they took to crime, Commander Bouza came up with the idea of organizing a river cleanup.

The group offers homeowner well testing, environmental education, river monitoring, annual river cleanup and stream restoration.

A river cleanup was held earlier this month to spruce up the riverbanks and help build interest for Saturday's event.

The City has a river cleanup of its river portion twice a year.

At the same time, the Metropolitan District Commission has poured $83 million into river cleanup, and plans $90 million more.

Separately, scores of universities, trying to set an example of good corporate citizenship, have formed partnerships with their surrounding communities to work on issues like affordable housing and river cleanup.

The unanimous feedback from the various experts was that the river cleanup was a delicate matter and that the wide range of contaminants present posed some very unique challenges.

We have a unique opportunity on Long Island to design the best possible river cleanup and to do it with a deliberative and informed community involvement process.

Unless garbage is recycled, he said, "we'll spend billions of dollars for filtration, river cleanup, beach cleanup and sending it to states that don't want it anymore."