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| Right next to the Santa Monica Pier... |
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| At the Pico-Kenter Storm Drain Out front of SHUTTERS and CASA DEL MAR |
Dateline: Mid morning, Friday, December 30, 2016 along the shoreline of Santa Monica, California between the world famous Santa Monica Pier and south just past Bay St. (aka, Lifeguard Tower #20), where we encountered, as usual, a great deal of #beachtrash along the water's edge left uncollected by the City of Santa Monica, even though it was obvious that a City tractor towing a rake had spent a couple of hours driving back and forth over the soft sand where there is typically little to no appreciable #beachtrash. In other words, the mechanical equipment ends up being used, in effect and practice, for cosmetic purposes only and no staff is assigned to walk along the water's edge and pick up the #beachtrash that is typically and regularly dispersed along the shoreline at the water's edge. This methodical and intentionally, albeit dysfunctional, approach to addressing the #beachtrash issue by the City of Santa Monica continues to threaten the public health, safety and welfare.
Above and below, notice that the beach along the soft sand has been raked by a tractor that goes back and forth where little to no one sits and where there is little to no #beachtrash. Hours are spent on this ridiculous and largely cosmetic effort, whereas no staff is assigned to walk the water's edge where there is a great deal of #beachtrash. This is the dysfunctional nature of the approach taken by the City of Santa Monica with respect to #beachtrash.
Below it is clear where the tractor dragging a rake stops short of the water's edge. It is along this uncertain, ambiguous and crooked line that #beachtrash regularly accumulates. The City can apparently afford to operate a tractor for several hours to drive back and forth over the soft dry sand where there is little to no appreciable #beachtrash, but the City cannot send even one city sanitation employee down to walk the water's edge and hand pick up this #beachtrash that the tractors do not catch or collect... This is the known omission and continuing neglect that is the true state of the sand and the beach in Santa Monica along the water's edge!
So why can't the City have staff walk along the water's edge and pick up discarded/washed up plastic bags like below?!...
Nice Fork!... After you've seen all the photos we've taken today of #beachtrash along the water's edge you can stick this fork in it...
Flowers?!... you shouldn't have.....
Below, a series of photos of the infamous Pico-Kenter storm drain where a great deal of #beachtrash accumulates and which does not get collected by the City of Santa Monica because no one walks the beach and hand picks it up...
Take a BIG GULP literally!... because that is A LOT of #beachtrash right out front of two luxury hotels on the beach in Santa Monica, namely, SHUTTERS and CASA DEL MAR!...
All those hotel taxes that SHUTTERS and CASA DEL MAR pay and this is what the beach looks like out front of their properties!... You are not going to see these photos on their website or social media. The City of Santa Monica certainly does not post photos like these above and below which shows how truly filthy the beach and sand is out front of these two luxury high end hotels that face the beach in Santa Monica.
Is this HIDEOUS or what?!...
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Hideous #Beachtrash Out Front of CASA DEL MAR and SHUTTERS: The Video
https://youtu.be/CVqoPmckkNs
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#Beachtrash Along the Water's Edge: The Video
https://youtu.be/5sayXrNxskw
Below, probably not the "last straw", unfortunately, in the ongoing #beachtrash" story.....
Below, another example of the runaround the general public is getting from the City of Santa Monica with respect to cleaning up the #beachtrash along the water's edge. The City tractors do circles, literally and figuratively, up and down the dry soft sand and around the lifeguard towers where there is typically not a great deal of #beachtrash. Meanwhile, as the numerous photos shown here in this blog post NO EFFORT is undertaken to clean up the significant and horrific levels of #beachtrash along the water's edge by the City of Santa Monica. The same time devoted to the use of the tractors could be devoted to actually cleaning up #beachtrash along the water's edge, instead of the largely cosmetic efforts on the soft dry sand..... That would be the thing to do if the City were truly interested in cleaning up the #beachtrash, however.....
Nice raking of the soft dry sand below by the City tractors..... where there is typically very little #beachtrash.....
Now imagine if next year some Santa Monica City Council member and/or someone in the Mayor's office were to undertake and actually resolve this continuing and ongoing public health and safety hazard that this City's chronic #beachtrash represents along the water's edge. Such a person or persons would certainly earn a feather in their cap and the gratitude of the general public, not to mention the corporate and private taxpayers in Santa Monica.....
Respectfully submitted,
William Maguire,
Santa Monica business owner
(All photos and videos by & Copyright William Maguire 2016.)
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