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Public Works comes through
1 p.m., yesterday: tipster emails Ken Lanfear, Public Works Director, about a huge, overflowing bag of trash, plus smaller bag and box, all filled with spent fireworks, beer cans etc. at the Marine View approach. It had all been collected, but would the tide get it?
Shortly after, the trash was hauled away. Big thumbs-up to Public Works, not only for this, but for hustling like mad on Monday (the day-after) to take care of the scores of trash bags filled by Ernie Johnson and the Blue Bag Volunteers.
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Good idea about the wagon Lorraine. I just bring a clamming net and I fill that up with trash when I walk the beach (and take it all the way out to a trash can!)
There is a fine for littering on the beach, but good luck catching them, let alone enforcing it.
The ironic thing is, whoever does this thinks they are “helping” clean up garbage that washes in. They don’t see that they are just moving it to another place on the beach. Sad, ugly, too.
Anon, I had the idea that a fat tired garden wagon might do the trick for me…and have it on my list of purchases to make for the new house : ) But it’s nice to know that LeMay’s does that with the bulldozer. Hmmmmm, wonder if there is somewhere we could put up a wireless camera to watch? I think it’s criminal, but someone that would do this kind of thing doesn’t care about anyone else, just themselves.
Lorraine, there is so much piled out there, you can’t walk it out. Lemay drives a bulldozer out there to scoop it up every once in a while. It takes two or three loads to clean it up. I sure wish I knew who keeps doing it, and thinks somehow this is a good idea.
The first time we saw it was the first time we walked that path, I think in November 2008, when we bought our lot on Marine View and wanted to see what the access was like. It was several garbage bags about half way through the dunes on the north side of the path. It looked to me like it was garbage from someones house…short stay? Maybe didn’t want to pack it home or pay for dumping at the Permit Office? I’m not positive, but that was the impression it left me with. I was disgusted and immediately moved to thinking about what I could do about it, not much right at that time since we were looking at property to buy,and didn’t have any way to dispose of that much trash, but when I live there I will make it my mission to keep that path clean, I promise. As long as I’m able.
I don’t know why, but about two years ago people started picking up trash on the beach and leaving it at the dune line off Marine View drive. Public works even put up one of their “pack it out” signs, to no avail. I have three things to say to these people: Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!
Whooo hoo! WTG Public works dept.