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Unfortunately, the Los Angeles County Dept. of Beaches & Harbors (LACDBH) continues to NOT clean up the #beachtrash near the water's edge. Today, for example, Saturday, April 15, 2017, at and after 9:30 a.m., I walked from Navy St. to the Venice Breakwater and took photos and videos of the significant and dangerous #beachtrash near the water's edge. It was obvious that NO ONE from LACDBH bothered to either walk along the shoreline or even scout the tide line for #beachtrash this morning on a weekend day. Easter Weekend, in fact. The parking lots are open and they are collecting exorbitant parking fees from beach patrons but LACDBH is not able to clean up the #beachtrash. The health and safety of beach patrons continue to be at risk due to this failure by LACDBH. Such failure is not merely negligence, in my opinion. The continued failure to do so in spite of their knowledge that there is #beachtrash near the water's edge represents a considered and deliberate decision by LACDBH. Glass bottles, broken glass, sharp storm debris, plastic bottles, plastic bags and dead birds! None of this gets picked up and disposed of by LACDBH on either a daily or regular basis near the water's edge.
*** Video Alert ! ***
Venice Beach Art Installation: #BeachTrash #StormDebris & #DeadBirds
https://youtu.be/O7JLF_CJI3g
Dead Bird No. 1!...
Lots of #stormdebris continues to endanger the public near the water's edge due to LACDBH not picking it up and disposing of it!...
Dead Bird No. 2!...
Looks like a very much dead Cormorant...
Dead Bird & Beach Trash & Storm Debris art installation adjacent to Navy St. near the water's edge...
Above and below, more #stormdebris and #beachtrash...
On my return trip back toward Navy St. none of the #beachtrash I had photographed above had been picked up and removed by LACDBH. In other words, by 11:30 a.m., all of this #beachtrash, #stormdebris and the dead birds was still where I found it near the water's edge!...
Below, #storm debris litters the tide line. Why can't LACDBH pick this up and remove it so that beach patrons do not step on it and cut their feet?!...
Even this very ill baby elephant seal is apparently sick of all the #beachtrash...
At some point, we hope that LACDBH will once again patrol the shoreline and pick up the significant #beachtrash that accumulates near the water's edge. This should be done daily or on multiple days a week and in the morning in advance of the arrival of most beach patrons. This is not brain surgery. There is no compelling reason why LACDBH cannot direct the resources that it has to cleaning up the obvious and very much visible #beachtrash near the water's edge so that beach patrons are not at risk of getting injured from #beahtrash or sick from #deadbirds!
Respectfully submitted,
William Maguire,
Los Angeles resident
Editor, Venice Beach Trash (the blog)
(All photos by & Copyright William Maguire 2017.)
*** This Venice Beach Trash blog is a personal endeavor of William Maguire and represents an expression of his First Amendment privileges as a U.S. Citizen.
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