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Summer 2001 Currents

Volunteers Clean Town Line Brook From left to right: Kaleigh Murphy, Katie Resnick, and Carol Gapski of Revere CARES; and Representative Kathi Reinstein, Town Line Brook, June 2001.   Despite temperatures which reached 95 degrees, more than 50 volunteers joined the Saugus River Watershed Council and State Representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein on Saturday, 30 June, to remove over 4 tons of debris from the Town Line Brook in Revere and Malden. Revere Mayor Thomas Ambrosino, Revere City Councilor Mark Cassella, Revere School Committee member Donna Wood Pruitt, Councilor Ward 8 Malden Rich Correale, and Larry Gil from the state’s Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, were some of the first volunteers to begin hauling trash from the Brook. Volunteers worked with staff and equipment donated by the Metropolitan District Commission and the Revere Department of Public Works, and a Saugus River Watershed Council canoe, to pull debris from the bottom of Town Line Brook. By the end of the day, 25 shopping carts, 10 bikes, a sofa, bed frames, a boat trailer, laundry bin, trash compactor, stove, grill, construction debris, yard waste, tree limbs, tires, plastic and glass bottles, parts of old motors, and other debris were removed from the bottom of Town Line Brook and Trifone Brook. RESCO and BFI generously handled the waste disposal at no charge. Volunteers included members of Revere CARES, Revere 1st, Women of the Moose, and the Revere Historical Society. Special thanks to Joe James, Rose Napolitano, Silvio Scaglione and Tony Ciano for recruiting their friends and neighbors for the cleanup. Volunteers enjoyed Honey Dew Donuts contributed by Rep. Kathi Reinstein, drinks contributed by Stop & Shop on Squire Road, and Richie’s Slush donated by Revere School Committee member Joe Giannino. Other sponsors of the cleanup included GeoSyntec Consultants, ITAM, Malden City Council, and the Massachusetts Environmental Trust. According to State Representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein, “The enthusiastic support from neighborhood residents, Revere and Malden public officials, the Revere Department of Public Works, the Metropolitan District Commission, and the Saugus River Watershed Council for the cleanup was tremendous”. “Together we helped increase flood storage capacity by removing so much trash from the bottom of the brook”, said Reinstein.

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Saugus River and the Whaling Industry
SRWC Comments
Editorial: Pollution at Henkel Site
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Volunteers Clean Town Line Brook
CoastSweep 2001Team SRWC
Around the Watershed
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History of Lake Quannapowit