New York (CNN) -- Volunteers toiled for hours on Friday washing mostly man-made debris from a New York coastline, the spread religious offerings from a growing Hindu population in Queens.
The group has painted care within local conservationists behind leaving offerings -- clothing, sculptures, plastic flowers and other items -- by the Gateway National Recreation Area approach Jamaica Bay.
"I was revolted to discern the condition of the location," said New Yorker Nagassar Ramgarib, a practicing Hindu. "It was really disgustingly obscene."
Many defend the train, considered a sacred Hindu tradition. Millions of worshippers leave offerings to the gods at India's Ganges rill every year.
"There are times while we feel that we absence to come to the sea, to attempt flowers and of way ... material entities for we feel that flowers, they just work," said Esther J. Ramdeen,
beats by dre, a spokeswoman for the East Elmhurst temple, Shiva Mandir, who helped mobilize Friday's clean-up. "We see God in the sea," she said.
What remains is a standoff among those who insist on practicing their beliefs unfettered and environmentalists who are trying to maintain the area for local marine life.
Affected along the buildup and inspired by a park ranger who assisted clear debris with him several years earlier, Ramgarib returned to his temple to encourage executives and its members to visit the park and see the dispose.
"It is the sea. It is someone that we for Hindus worship," he told them, "It is the medium that we use from this life to the after-life."
Ramgarib advised that whether the space was continually contaminated, his human could be banned.
Kathy Krause, a administrative park ranger of the Gateway National Recreation Area who attended the clean-up, agrees the religious practices have put certain pressure on the bay.
"It's a wealthy biodiverse ecosystem merely it's definitively suffering some important environmental issues," Krause said.
These surplus items left on the gulf are one of its biggest threats for Jamaica Bay, a national park that's home to extra than 325 species of birds, invertebrates and sea life, Krause said.
"They release nutrients into the bay that don't belong there, and it exacerbates the water pollution problem we have," she said.
Volunteers picking below rocks and via grass Friday filled garbage bags of flasks, coconut shells, figurines and yards of cloth, all of which the group says they will try to recycle.
Ramdeen said the fabric, plucked and periodically ripped from under the shoreline, is just different chapter of the material estates offered to the gods.
"You see that the colors we're picking up are very pretty colors," she said "and we as Hindus consider that we ought give God the best."
The material collected by Ramdeen's union is rinsed before being sent back to India as clothing.
"So it was kind of a recycling process," she said of their efforts.
"It's unbelievable," Krause said of the group's efforts. "This equitable shows such excellent turnout from the local community."
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