RE: [Paddlewise] new york waterfront

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From:	rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com [SMTP:rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com]
Sent:	Friday, February 26, 1999 1:11 PM
To:	paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net; nyckayaker_at_envirolink.org
Subject:	[Paddlewise] new york waterfront

There is an interesting interview with Adam Brown in the Metro section
of today's (Friday, 2/26) New York Times.

Adam is a commercial diver who has been seeing the underside of our
boats for years as he assesses and works on the underpinning of New
York's piers.

For those who are unaware, the pollution levels of the water here has
dropped so drastically that many forms of marine life, once unable to
survive here because of the condition of the water, have returned.
Included are crustaceans and mollusks that are eating away at the piers.

Speaking of wild life coming back.  I have a paddling partner down here in VA Beach who grew up in the area, moved away and came back.  When he was growing up here there were no sea birds.  DDT and all that.  Now, every time we go out he stares at the birds.  I don't think this is a recent comeback, however, it is a good sign.  
  I for one had never considered that there would not be sea gulls here.  We have them in Denver after all, of course there are gulls at the ocean.  I vaguely remember DDT being a bad thing, (I'm only 26, barely qualify as a child with all of the geezers on this list,)  Nice to know about New York though.  If that place can make a come back there may be hope for just about anywhere else.

Regards,
  Aaron Hunt

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