Three-Day Cleanup

The fifth annual "Hands Around the Bays" beach cleanup, a three-day effort, is scheduled to begin tomorrow, and the sponsoring Save the Bays group has asked for more volunteers to work with beach captains and host organizations. As of Tuesday, over 1,000 people had enlisted in the cleanup, part of an international, and documented, undertaking.

A documented cleanup is one in which the debris collected is identified and recorded. Scientists then study the information to determine the sources of marine pollution and try to come up with solutions.

In East Hampton Town, Scout troops, schools, and individual classes have adopted sections of beach.

Schools Out In Force

The Amagansett School is planning to travel to Montauk at 9 a.m. on Friday to clean Gin Beach, and will meet at the end of East Lake Drive. The beach along Fort Pond Bay, Montauk, will be tackled by the fourth and fifth grades of the Montauk School beginning at 1 p.m. that day.

Also Friday, starting at 8 a.m., the East Hampton Middle School will attack the beaches of Cedar Point County Park with the help of the Bridgehampton School's fifth grade. The latter group is scheduled to start at 9 a.m.

On Saturday, Tom Dess, director of Montauk's state parks, has organized a cleanup along the strand at Montauk Point Park beginning at 10:30 a.m. at the concession, and on Sunday noon, along the beach at Hither Hills State Park. Sunday's volunteers will meet at the main bathhouse.

Attack On Sammy's

Barbara Sawitsky has asked volunteers to meet at 10 a.m. at Sammy's Beach on Saturday. Carl Horlitz has asked his own Sammy's Beach volunteers to meet at the same place at the same hour.

Just to the east, at 10 a.m., volunteers led by members of the Accabonac Protection Committee will tackle the beaches of Louse and Gerard Points in Springs. Fresh Pond, Amagansett, will get the once-over from East Hampton High School's marine science club.

The high school's environmental club has plans to clean the beaches of Barcelona Neck in Sag Harbor on Monday.

The Long Island Shore and Beach Preservation Association has adopted Cold Spring Point Beach on Peconic Bay in Southampton. Those who would like to help clean this section have been asked to call Robert Gans in Westhampton Beach.

In Southampton

In Southampton on Friday, the beach at the end of Sebonac Inlet Road, near the National Golf Links, will receive the attention of students of the Tuckahoe School, grades six to eight, beginning at 12:30 p.m. Southampton High School students are scheduled to clean Sebonac Inlet/North Sea Beach beginning at 11 a.m.

The Hampton Day School will tackle Jessup's Neck at 10 a.m. on Friday, and the third grade of the Bridgehampton School has its sights on Long Beach west, starting at 9 a.m. The Ross School has claimed the east end of Long Beach, also at 9.

Eleanor Swan and her volunteers will clean Havens Beach, in Sag Harbor. She can be reached at her Sag Harbor residence for the meeting time.

Widespread Support

Also in Southampton, the Greenbelt Trail Conference is scheduled to take on the debris at Squires Pond on Saturday afternoon.

The Save the Bays group is co-sponsoring the cleanup with the Moore Charitable Foundation, the American Littoral Society, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the State Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Center for Marine Conservation.

Last year over 6,000 New Yorkers cleaned 220 miles of shoreline of over 150,000 pounds of debris. R.D.