Volunteers from the Marine Trade Industry in Portsmouth join together as environmental stewards to clean Stringham Road.

Clean Ocean Access (COA) hosted a cleanup at Stringham Road with support and participation from Portsmouth Maritime, Portsmouth Refit, LMI, Ocean Link, Rail Explorers, Hinckley, Cay, New England Boatworks, S&S, East Coast Yacht Sales, Doug Wielhouwer, Northstar Yacht Sales, Kiwi Marine, Gulf Stream Grille and the Navy officers from the supply support team from Naval Station Newport.

30 volunteers came together to remove approximately 700 pounds of debris from Stringham Road. Among the debris were car and motorcycle tires, metal pipes and a toaster oven. We are excited to continue this long lasting stewardship effort with the marine trade industry in Portsmouth at Stringham Road.

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