Celebrate Earth Day and Help Clean Eatontown's Whale Pond Watershed on April 23

Continuing with its "Protect Our Watersheds" theme, NJ Friends of Clearwater is sponsoring a cleanup of the Whale Pond Brook Watershed in April on Saturday with other members of the Whale Pond Brook Watershed Association.

The April 23 clean-up will be on the west side of Route 35 in Eatontown, on the side of the stream near the confluence of the Whale Pond and Cranberry Brook. The Eatontown meeting spot and access point will be the back parking lot of 99 Corbett Way off of Industrial Way West. It is next to the Surgery Center at 97 Corbett Way and registration is from 9:30 a.m. until noon. Clearwater will supply gloves, waders, pickup, and coffee and suggests on its Web site that volunteers wear boots and layered clothing.

This is the third clean-up in the area in the last few months, the last of which was on April 2 at the southern stream bank near the Hess gas station on east side Route 35 in Ocean. The Whale Pond floodplain was clogged with construction debris, 55-gallon drums, signs, garbage, recyclables and packaging.