County Recurrent: August 2016

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Santa Monica South: The Horror...

Dateline: Santa Monica South. Auditing the lack of hand picking of trash along the shoreline by the City of Santa Monica. The failure to do so has left us with little choice but to clean it up ourselves...

The photos:

Thursday, August 18, 2016: The trash I collected along the water line to the berm along Santa Monica South. I dumped the trash out on the sand so I could take this photo. Thereafter, I placed the glass and plastic waste in one of the blue Recycle bins and placed the rest of the trash in a nearby garbage bin...

Monday morning, August 22, 2016: The trash I collected along the water line to the berm along Santa Monica South. I dumped the trash out on the sand so I could take this photo. Thereafter, I placed the glass and plastic waste in the blue Recycle bin and placed the rest of the trash in a nearby garbage bin...

Tuesday, August 23, 2016: The trash I collected along the water line to the berm along Santa Monica South. I dumped the trash out on the sand so I could take this photo. Thereafter, I placed the glass and plastic waste in one of the blue Recycle bins and placed the rest of the trash in the above shown garbage bin...

Saturday, August 27, 2016: I found this discarded white bucket along the shoreline out front of SMS Tower #18 at the end of Pico Blvd. on Saturday morning, Aug. 27th and used it to pick up trash along the water line from Tower 18 - 16. There wasn't as much as usual and I mentioned it to the lifeguards at both Tower #16 and Tower #20 and they said that there were three young girls, approx. age of 12, that we picking up trash along the beach, albeit as volunteers that morning.

Monday morning, August 29, 2016: The trash I collected along the water line to the berm along Santa Monica South. I dumped the trash out on the sand so I could take this photo. Thereafter, I placed the glass and plastic waste in the blue Recycle bin and placed the rest of the trash in a nearby garbage bin...

Wednesday morning, August 31, 2016: The trash I collected along the water line to the berm along Santa Monica South. I dumped the trash out on the sand so I could take this photo. Thereafter, I placed the glass and plastic waste in the blue Recycle bin and placed the rest of the trash in a nearby garbage bin...

The amount of trash left uncollected and not hand picked by the City of Santa Monica is absolutely staggering!

The City of Santa Monica claims that their staff does hand pick this part of the beach from the water line to the berm...

x-ref: http://www.smmirror.com/articles/News/Trash-Talk/45915

The results of our own efforts, however, illustrates that this is simply not the case and that the City neither regularly, and certainly not daily, bothers to hand pick up the trash in this part of the beach.

It is hoped that the City will start to actually hand pick up the trash along the shoreline at the beach that they say they are doing and which they are clearly not doing.

Respectfully submitted,

Will Maguire

Editor,
"County Recurrent"News
http://CountyRecurrent.blogspot.com

(All photos by & Copyright Will Maguire 2016.)

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Lifeguards Along SMS...

Dateline: The back half of August 2016 along Santa Monica South... some of the faces, e.g., LACo Ocean Lifeguards, on duty...

Monday, August 22nd... OL John Baltz on a workout...

Tuesday, August 23rd, OL Nick Sullivan, on duty...

Monday, August 29th, Baywatch Santa Monica responding to incident at SMS Tower #16 with unruly patron/swimmer...

Monday, August 29th... look who is back from Rio!... and working a shift at SMS Tower #20... Azad!

Incident at SMS Tower #16, below, Monday morning, Aug. 29th... OL Brandon Leon, on duty, on the deck at left, with a cameo at center right of frame by OL Katya...

Below, SMPD conferring with SMS Area Captain while waiting for the unruly patron/swimmer to tire himself out in the ocean...

Wednesday morning, August 31st...

Below, OL Nick Sullivan on a workout...

Below, OL Brandon Leon, on duty at SMS Tower #22...

Below, OL Chris Newman, on a mission...

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Until next time.....

"County Recurrent" News
http://CountyRecurrent.blogspot.com

(All photos by & Copyright Will Maguire 2016.)

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Santa Monica South: Trash Along The Waterline...

Dateline: Wednesday morning, August 31, 2016... in the continuing saga of the City of Santa Monica not hand picking up the trash from the water line to the berm, here are the photos we took this morning after 10 a.m. which continues to show that there is no hand picking of trash being done on a regular basis by the City of Santa Monica, and certainly not daily.

We filled a large plastic bag full of trash (glass, plastic, paper products, even a dead fish, a dead seagull and some tar) between Lifeguard Tower 16 and Tower 22...

Filled this plastic bag full of trash by the time I got to Tower 22...

Here is everything inside the bag that I collected along the water line to the berm that was not cleaned up or hand picked by the City of Santa Monica...

After placing the recyclable material in the recycle bin, the balance was thrown away in one of the beach garbage bins.

It is hoped that this continuing blog series showing the abundance of trash along the shoreline in the City of Santa Monica will compel the City to do something about and to audit their staff that they say are hand picking this trash along the water line. Our efforts say otherwise.

Respectfully submitted,

Will Maguire, Editor
"County Recurrent" News
http://CountyRecurrent.blogspot.com

(All photos by & Copyright Will Maguire 2016.)

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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Will Rogers North Audit...

Dateline: Mid morning, Tuesday, August 30, 2016... we decided it was high time to check out the beach/sand erosion that we had heard about along Will Rogers North (from the jetty out front of Gladstones to Castle Rock at Tower #1... or where Tower #1 used to be.....)

Lots of missing sand, that's for sure!...

The WRN Garage... probably the most worthless building in Lifeguard Division...

How much sand erosion, you ask?... So much that both Tower #1 and Tower #3 are off the beach!...

Below, "Take That, Joel Gitelson!" :-)

In terms of trash on the beach, WRN is a lot cleaner than Santa Monica South, but we did notice that there was some trash on the soft sand and along the water line that needs to be collected by the LACo Dept. of Beaches and Harbors, which they must be doing because otherwise there would surely be a great deal more trash left behind on the beach.

Sea slug, below, I think... Saw several of them beached between the high and low tide line along WRN...

And guess who was the OT OLS Today at WRN?!... Eric Liberty!

And the day shift hire OL was Veteran Joy Espin, below...

Below, OLS Eric Liberty watching the water...

After a short soft sand/hard pack run and a swim, we hit the shower and took our leave but not before one last photo showing OLS Liberty watching the water from inside Tower #2...