Waters Edge Beach Trash in Santa Monica

Dateline: Sunday, May 7, 2023. The amount of beach trash along the shoreline in Santa Monica remains unchanged and uncollected by the City of Santa Monica since May 4, 2023. The City literally is doing nothing to prevent trash from flushing out to sea from the Pico-Kenter storm drain. And the City has not bothered to clean up the trash at the waters edge as the result of the latest rain storm of May 3rd and May 4th, 2023. This is unacceptable and irresponsible.

*** Santa Monica Beach Trash: The Video...

YouTube link to same video: https://youtu.be/VLEO-SueM7c --- --- --- The time is long overdue for the City to devote its massive resources to clean up the shoreline after rain storms instead of continuing to bury its collective head in the sand. The City should be ashamed of its negligence in this regard and take immediate action to implement fundamental managerial and administrative control over this continuing public nuisance and municipal malfeasance. Submitted, albeit, regrettably... William E. Maguire, Attorney at law, Santa Monica, Calif. www.beachesq.com

Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017: Santa Monica Beach Trash Report

Below, the sum of my efforts... the #beachtrash I collected between the Santa Monica Pier and Ocean Park near the water's edge!...  and that the City ignores and could care less about disposing of.

Dateline: Wednesday morning, October 4, 2017, along Santa Monica State Beach between the Santa Monica Pier and Ocean Park (a distance of approx. 1 mile) and back to the pier... where I observed, photographed and hand picked up and disposed of #beachtrash near the water's edge that continues to be ignored by the City of Santa Monica, in spite of misrepresentations to the contrary by the City that its staff hand picks up beach trash near the water's edge on a daily basis.

Here are the photos I took of the beach trash that I collected and disposed of thereafter.

Below, the bag of beach trash collected so far, plus a plastic straw in the sand...

Below, the bag of beach trash I've collected is already full... and I haven't yet walked even 1/4 of a mile along the water's edge...

Beautiful morning at the beach!... in spite of all the #beachtrash near the water's edge that the City of Santa Monica is too lazy to pick up and that it could care less about!...

Stick a FORK in it!... this beach is filthy near the water's edge!...

Below, unfortunately, not the last straw...

Below, the bag of beach trash that I collected between the Santa Monica Pier and Ocean Park (adjacent to Lifeguard Tower 26)....

 Below, in the next two immediate photos are the contents of the bag full of beach trash that I collected near the water's edge!...

Glass bottles, aluminum cans, plastic bottles and assorted other plastic and paper debris UNCOLLECTED by the City of Santa Monica near the water's edge because it lacks the civic integrity to do so on a daily basis.

After a short swim in the ocean and on my return toward the Santa Monica Pier, I collected some additional beach trash near the water's edge...

Obviously, there continues to be a real problem at Santa Monica State Beach in terms of the City of Santa Monica NOT doing its job of cleaning up the #beachtrash near the water's edge on a daily basis.  This blog's photos continue to establish and confirm that the City of Santa Monica does not, in fact, hand pick up and dispose of #beachtrash near the water's edge on a daily basis.  And this is in spite of at least two misrepresentations to the contrary by the City of Santa Monica.  To make matters worse, the State of California (Calif. State Parks) continues to bury it's head in the sand and ignore the fact that the City of Santa Monica is breaching the Operating Agreement with the State of California that requires that the City clean up the #beachtrash near the water's edge.

Respectfully submitted,

William Maguire,
Attorney at law, and
Concerned citizen

(All photos by & Copyright William Maguire 2017.)

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