Lions Club Helps Our Stormwater System, You Can Too

Members of the Eastchester/Scarsdale based Annie Sullivan Lions Club assisted the Village in implementing its Stormwater Management Program by marking catch basins on Saturday, July 24, 2010.

Catch basis are commonly known as storm drains, and the group focused their work on the Fox Meadow and Greenacres neighborhoods.

Storm drains discharge directly into rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, wetlands and bays. This means that any debris, chemicals, dirt, and/or other pollutants that flow or are dumped into storm drains, flow untreated into the waterbodies we use for swimming, fishing, and providing drinking water.

The group pictured here met at Village Hall at 8:30 a.m. where they received a tutorial, maps, adhesive, and markers from Village staff. The group then split into two groups, one for each neighborhood, and marked catch basins with circle markers, also pictured below, until 12:30 p.m. and had lunch at Village Hall. The group marked an estimated 230 catch basins. The group plans to continue mark additional catch basins on August 16, 2010.

The Village thanks New York State Assemblywoman Amy Paulin for her assistance in coordinating this activity with the Annie Sullivan Lions Club and assisting in the event herself.

For information about the Annie Sullivan Lions Club contact Joanne Pergolis at
jrpergolis@verizon.net and/or 914-282-3294.

If anyone is interested in volunteering to mark catch basins (storm drains) in the Village, contact John D. Goodwin in the Village Manager's Office at jgoodwin@scarsdale.com or 914-722-1110.

[Note: This article is a service piece contributed by the office of the village manager.]