Sep 19, 2009 8:39 am US/Pacific
Santa Clara Holding Coastal Clean-Up Day
MORGAN HILL (BCN) ―
The 25th annual California Coastal Cleanup Day is Saturday and Santa Clara County is looking for volunteers to help remove trash, debris and recyclables from local county waterways.
Each year the Santa Clara Valley Water District, Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department and the city of San Jose host a local cleanup day as part of the statewide event to remove trash, debris and recyclables clogging the region's waterways.
In 2008, 1,331 volunteers in the county collected 95,656 pounds of debris and 16,327 pounds of recyclables.
This year's event will run from 9 a.m. to noon at 35 cleanup locations in Santa Clara County, including a site on West Little Llagas Creek in Morgan Hill. Volunteers can find cleanup locations at
http://www.cleanacreek.org.
Save The Bay, a regional organization that works to protect and restore the San Francisco Bay, will also host two sites from 9 a.m. to noon, including the Jack Rabbit picnic area at Candlestick Park in San Francisco and at Coyote Creek in Milpitas.
Save The Bay spokeswoman Jessica Castelli said the event is an important one for the organization.
"It's an important day so that people get out there along the San Francisco Bay and its creeks and the ocean shoreline and see the big problem that trash poses to the environment and wildlife and hopefully that will inspire them to take some action in their lives," Castelli said.
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