Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
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The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. is an organization based in Poughkeepsie, New York that seeks to protect the Hudson River through advocacy and public education. Founded by folk singer Pete Seeger in 1966, the organization is known for its sloop Clearwater and annual music festival, the Great Hudson River Revival.
Clearwater has gained national recognition for its activism starting in the 1970s to force a clean-up of PCB contamination of the Hudson River caused by industrial manufacturing by General Electric and other companies on the river's edge. Other specific Hudson watershed issues Clearwater is concerned with are development pressures in the southern half of the Hudson Valley, pesticide runoff, the Manhattan west side waterfront, Indian Point nuclear reactors, and New York/New Jersey Harbor dredge spoil disposal.
Clearwater's educational programs are intended to heighten public awareness of the Hudson River's unique ecosystem that blends freshwater streams from the Adirondack Mountains with the salt tides of the Atlantic Ocean around New York City.
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[edit] Sloop Clearwater
| CLEARWATER (Sloop) | |
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| (U.S. National Register of Historic Places) | |
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| Location: | Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Built/Founded: | 1968 |
| Architect: | Hamlin, Cyrus; Gamage, Harvey Shipyard |
| Added to NRHP: | May 04, 2004 |
| Reference #: | 04000376 [1] |
| Governing body: | Private |
The sloop Clearwater is a 107-foot wooden sailing vessel patterned after 1870s Hudson River sloops. With a large, powerful gaff rig, and wide shallow hull, these vessels were evolved to deal with the challenges of strong tides, shoal waters, and variable winds encountered on the Hudson River.
Designed by Cy Hamlin and built by Harvey Gammage in East Boothbay, ME, Clearwater was launched in 1969.
Clearwater is owned and operated by the non-profit Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. She is used primarily to offer environmental education programs to school groups.
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- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2006-03-15).
