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EPA Staff To Help Clean the Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area

Release Date: 04/24/2001
Contact Information: Amy Miller, EPA Press Office (617-918-1042)

BOSTON – Ira Leighton, acting regional administrator for the New England Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is expected to join more than 100 EPA New England staff tomorrow in helping to clean up the Boston Harbor Islands national park area. The National Park Service is hosting the island clean up in cooperation with EPA New England. Boat transportation is being provided for volunteers who will collect debris that has accumulated on the islands from winter storms.

A Boston Harbor Cruises passenger ferry will leave from Long Wharf, Boston at 8:30 am on Wednesday, April 25, and take volunteers to one of four islands: Bumpkin, Grape, or Thompson's. Two return trips are scheduled, arriving Long Wharf in Boston at Noon and 3 pm.

This program is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Park Service, Island Alliance, Massachusetts Port Authority, Metropolitan District Commission, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Affairs, Boston Water Bus Service, Inc., and Boston Harbor Cruises with assistance from Easy Disposal.