MORIAH — If it weren't for the dead fish clean-up effort under way now, public campgrounds in Moriah and Port Henry might not be opening this year.A record number of a non-native fish called alewives washed ashore this spring at both facilities, including public beaches.
"It would have affected the opening of our campgrounds," Moriah Town Supervisor Thomas Scozzafava said. "Also, any smell from the Port Henry Beach wafts back into the village. It would start stinking as soon as the weather got warmer."
MONEY SAVED
The little fish are being raked up in droves this week.
"We've had thousands of the alewives washed up on our beaches," Scozzafava said. "We spent last week trying to find some help getting rid of these dead fish before they start smelling."
The help came in the form of two large roll-off trash containers supplied by Serkil LLC, and inmate work crews from Moriah State Shock Incarceration Facility.
Serkil, the company under contract to operate the Essex County Transfer Station in Lewis, trucks the county's solid-waste to the Franklin County Regional Landfill after it's deposited at the Lewis site.
"We're going to have to fill them (the bins)," Scozzafava said. "Serkil will take care of the landfilling. It saved our community a lot of money. This could have been super expensive. Our appreciation and the community's appreciation goes to Serkil." Read More
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