Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
Encyclopedia : H : HU : HUD : Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. is an environmental organization based in Poughkeepsie, New York that seeks to protect the Hudson River through advocacy and public education. Founded by folk singer Pete Seeger in 1966, the organization is known for its sloop Clearwater.
Clearwater has gained national recognition for its activism starting in the 1970s to force a clean-up of PCB contamination of the Hudson River caused by industrial manufacturing by General Electric and other companies on the river's edge. Other specific Hudson watershed issues Clearwater is concerned with are development pressures in the southern half of the Hudson Valley, pesticide runoff, the Manhattan west side waterfront, Indian Point nuclear reactors, and New York/New Jersey Harbor dredge spoil disposal.
Clearwater's educational programs are intended to heighten public awareness of the Hudson River's unique ecosystem that blends freshwater streams from the Adirondack Mountains with the salt tides of the Atlantic Ocean around New York City. Clearwater biologists claim the complex Hudson coastal zone and estuary system, as an econsystem, ranks second only to rain forests in biological productivity.
Sloop Clearwater
Launched in 1969, the sloop Clearwater is a 106-foot wooden sailing sloop designed after 18th and 19th century Dutch sailing sloops. It is used as a classroom, laboratory, and stage that sails on the Hudson River. The sloop was instrumental in educating Hudson Valley residents about ecological damage from PCB dumping by GE (in the Albany, New York metro region).,
The Clearwater is operated by the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.
See also
External links
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.