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New York (CNN) -- Volunteers toiled for hours on Friday cleaning mostly man-made debris from a New York coastline, the spread religious offerings from a growing Hindu population in Queens.

The team has painted care among regional conservationists behind leaving offerings -- clothing, sculptures, plastic flowers and additional items -- according the Gateway National Recreation Area approach Jamaica Bay.

"I was revolted to penetrate the condition of the location," said New Yorker Nagassar Ramgarib, a practicing Hindu. "It was actually disgustingly dirty."

Many vindicate the train, thought a divine Hindu institution. Millions of worshippers quit offerings to the gods at India's Ganges river every year.

"There are times while we feel that we need to come to the sea, to offer flowers and of lesson ... material entities for we feel that flowers, they just go," said Esther J. Ramdeen, a spokeswoman for the East Elmhurst temple, Shiva Mandir, who helped organize Friday's clean-up. "We see God in the sea," she said.

What remains is a standoff among those who insist on practicing their faiths unfettered and environmentalists who are attempting to maintain the area for local sailor life.

Affected by the buildup and influenced by a park ranger who helped remove 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 namely we as Hindus adore," he told them, "It is the middle namely we use from this life to the after-life."

Ramgarib advised that whether the district was continually polluted, his human could be banned.

Kathy Krause, a administrative park ranger of the Gateway National Recreation Area who attended the clean-up,beats by dr dre, agrees the religious practices have put definite oppression on the bay.

"It's a wealthy biodiverse ecosystem yet it's definitively suffering some major environmental issues," Krause said.

These accessory items left on the bay are an of its biggest menaces for Jamaica Bay, a citizen park that's family to extra than 325 species of birds, invertebrates and sea life, Krause said.

"They loosen nutrients into the bay that don't belong there, and it exacerbates the water pollution problem we have," she said.

Volunteers picking beneath rocks and through grass Friday filled garbage bags of bottles, coconut shells, figurines and yards of fabric, entire of which the group says they will try to recycle.

Ramdeen said the fabric, plucked and sometimes ripped from below the shoreline, is fair different part of the material possessions offered to the gods.

"You see that the colors we're electing up are very pretty colors," she said "and we as Hindus calculate that we should give God the best."

The material collected by Ramdeen's organization is cleaned before being sent back to India as clothes.

"So it was kind of a recycling process," she said of their efforts.

"It's extraordinary," Krause said of the group's efforts. "This just shows such splendid turnout from the local community."
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