San Gabriel River Trash Plume winter 2010

What is tossed on the street gets 'flushed' down the storm drains and goes out into the San Gabriel River and down to the Seal and Huntington beaches. The San Gabriel River contributes to the Pacific Gyre, the huge Texas sized plastic trash spiral in the Pacific Ocean. The upper watershed of the San Gabriel River fills the Whittier Narrows Dam, the halfway point between the mountains and the ocean, with plastic bags and other noxious garbage where Federally Endangered birds feed. With the recent rains this season in 2010, that garbage from the Whittier Narrows, that is not woven into the trees and bushes, get washed out down the river to Seal and Huntington Beach.

Please see Whittier Narrows Dam photos on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tardigrade-page/sets/72157623608923232/

The Blue Water Task Force is the Surfrider Foundation's water quality monitoring, education and advocacy program. Chapter member alert citizens and officials in their communities about water quality problems and to work toward solutions.

The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world's oceans, wave and beaches for all people, through conservation, activism, research, and education.


The Photographs of the trash plume of the winter of 2010 were by Tony Soriano

We wish to thank Gary Horgan for participating in this video.

Don Schulz is the head of the Blue Water Task Force. We ALL thank him for all of his dedication and work!

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[ne0nsurf]

fuckin beaners bring all that shit. I see them leaving trash all the time.