Grants Help Finance Use of New Device
to Remove Floating Debris From Storm Water
(Cont'd)


In-kind services helped meet city's financial obligation to grant

The completed grant application totaled $58,000 with $29,000 in grant monies coming from the State of New York and $29,000 contributed by the city, much in the form of in-kind personnel services. These in-kind services were for the design of the device, construction oversight and maintenance of the device for the project period.

An educational effort to inform residents of the need to control nonpoint source pollution was also a required component of the grant.

Having already installed a stream floatable debris collection device in a shallow river under different circumstances, it seemed logical to the city that a similar device could be adapted to collect debris under conditions of tidal action. The concept, though simple in design, required the use of a proprietary device initially developed to control oil spills along shorelines and around leaking vessels.

When installed, the device consists of orange boom sheeting suspended from foam-filled floats equally spaced the entire length of the boom. The boom extends approximately 8 inches below the water and 12 inches above the water and is anchored at the upstream far shoreline by a 20 food long galvanized steel post driven into the creek bed.

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