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Parsippany Cleans Up Along Rockaway River

Community comes together for first big cleanup of area since Irene.

Parsippany Department of Public Works employees and a representative of the Student Leadership Group set out to make a difference Saturday morning by cleaning up some of the remnants of Hurricane Irene and the October snowstorm. 

The cleanup, the first effort among those towns affected by the unprecedented storm and flood that still has some Parsippany residents displaced from their homes, came just weeks before Irene's one-year anniversary.

They came together across from the Lake Hiawatha Swim Club and dispersed into small teams to work along the Rockaway River and into the parking lot of the swim club. 

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"Every year we do this event," DPW Director Greg Schneider said. "This is the first time we've done this since the storm. The river is what we usually go into to clean up that, but it is such a mess, we need heavy equipment to clean up all the downed trees.

"We do this for the township and this year we are going to do a little more and do some areas around homes where there is still debris from Irene," he said.

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