Lewis Pugh, a 53-year-old endurance swimmer, successfully completed a remarkable 315 mile journey down a New York river in the name of environmental awareness.
Untreated industrial waste, sewage, and chemical runoff severely contaminated this NYS lake, causing it to become one of the most polluted in the United States.
Today is "Earth Day", a day when we recognize that we live on a fragile planet that needs our efforts to preserve it. Traditionally on this day, many local groups and individuals put forth efforts to help clean up parks, streets, creeks and streams from picking up litter to recycling discarded items.
If you do some fishing or canoeing on central New York streams and creeks, you know that Sauquoit Creek has accumulated debris after several storms last year. Now a cleanup effort will take place this summer with financial help from the state.