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The problem was worsened several times over by recent storms, leaving garbage not only strewn but piled against the stretch of the walk leading from West New York to the New York Waterways ferry terminal in Weehawken.
Jill MacInnes of West New York takes her dog, Allie, along that walk every day. She’s astounded that no one has done anything about the trash.
“It puts things into unique perspective
CLIFFVIEWPILOT photos by Jill MacInneswhen you see baby ducks and geese swimming in the Hudson where huge tankers and ferry boats travel and you wonder how they will manage to make it to adulthood,” said MacInnes, a columnist for CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
“This trash will not float away any time soon because the water was so high the day of the [last] storm that it may not reach those heights again for a long time,” she said.
So who is responsible for cleaning it up? The city of West New York? The town of Weehawken? The state of New Jersey? New York Waterways?
“It breaks my heart to see all the trash,” MacInnes said, “because it really distracts from the beauty of the river — as well as the danger it poses to the birds and wildlife.”
She looks across the river at Manhattan and then back at the garbage.
“Most of it isn’t even ours.”
Ask a local public official, or someone at NY Waterways: Who is responsible for cleaning the tide of trash?
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