'Bay Guardian' Will Keep Watch Over Waterway This Summer

'Big Al' Wutkowski is ready to roll this summer.

As Memorial Day Weekend gets underway, signaling the start of boating season for hundreds of thousands of Garden State residents, this Point Pleasant Borough native the waterway in search of polluters.

It's not "enforcement," said Wutskowsi, but promoting clean practices in the prized estuary, which stretches from Point Pleasant to Little Egg Harbor.

Wutkowski will serve as "Barnegat Bay Guardian" this season, according to Helen Henderson of the American Littoral Society. He'll use his personal boat, a custom-built, outboard-powered center console, to patrol the bay and identify sources of pollution and remind boaters about protecting the waterway and using to dispose of waste.