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California Coastal Cleanup Day 2002 Results




County

Volunteers

Trash

Recyclables

Statewide
Adopt-A-Highway

2,947

49,347

1,392

Alameda

2,803

44,978

4,745

Alpine

13

444

0*

Butte

160

16,220

7,083

Contra Costa

954

65,863

400

Del Norte

260

350

51

Sacramento Delta

400

50,000

0*

El Dorado

415

4,683

595

Fresno

158

8,788

4,080

Humboldt

1,176

6,197

0*

Lake

190

2,110

510

Los Angeles

8,800

104,343

13,822

Marin

1,120

6,996

1,961

Mendocino

265

1,768

655

Modoc

17

210

5

Mono

108

75

15

Monterey

1,637

5,543

2,688

Napa

242

4,845

1,380

Nevada

500

5,820

2,218

Orange

5,101

55,920

10,937

Placer

Totals included under El Dorado County

Riverside

Totals included under San Diego County

Sacramento

600

6,000

4,800

San Bernardino

88

1,497

229

San Diego

4,724

97,171

3,770

San Francisco

2,335

7,980

6,340

San Luis Obispo

1,511

11,098

2,339

San Mateo

1,449

26,636

17,169

Santa Barbara

504

2,261

1,143

Santa Clara

1,427

41,305

6,413

Santa Cruz

1,500

5,900

1,880

Siskiyou

20

710

70

Solano

1,267

32,216

15,135

Sonoma

1,079

11,257

6,101

Ventura

1,938

18,122

4,510

Yuba

250

15,680

26,320


Total


45,958


712,333


148,756

All weights listed in pounds.
*Weight of recyclable material included in "Trash" totals.


Unusual Finds from Coastal Cleanup Day 2002
Alameda
Playschool Playhouse; Cat's headstone stating: "Your soul is safe now! The spirit is home. Rest in God's Peace;" 4 ft. long stuffed toy salmon; 1 ft statuette; bocce balls; maple syrup; urinal drain; IV bag; funeral wreath; yellow jacket trap; doll; a safe; music box; fishing license; a railroad spike; baby hatchling bird in a jar; brand new pair of men's steele toe boots; 1 dead stingray.

Alpine
Broken up buoys.

Butte
Computer monitors; bike frames.

Contra Costa
Lots of styrofoam (boats); old pilings; lot of plastic rings; 2 Phone Booths; 1 Bench Press set; life jacket; 4 boats.

El Dorado
Christmas wrapping paper and ornaments; Barbie doll with a nail through its hand; homeless camp with mattress; stuffed chair; computer monitor and brass lamp; a pit bull dog chained to a tree; 80 empty CD cases; pack of dental floss next to a "used" corn on the cob.

Lake
Purse filled with drugs & drug paraphenalia; hibachi; newpaper stand; money.

Los Angeles
Pair of Scooby Doo underwear; working wallet from 1995 containing MTA card, calender & food stamps from 1995; hypodermic; eyeglasses.

Marin
Hobnail shoe sole perhaps from Civil War; 1,000 lbs of wood; toaster; bathtub; 10 dead leopard sharks.

Mendocino
Companion sets of mail & female underwear, sterling silver steak knife

Monterey
200lbs lumber; 6 tires; 4 mattresses; 4 box springs; 112 pound Tire; dead sea lion with fishing line around fin; lots of foam and plywood from recent boat wreck; hibachi BBQ; part of an engine; unopened bottle of beer; home prenency test; car battery; big ball of fishing line and hooks; plastic eyball; shopping cart; 4' drill bit; menues; baby shoes; plyers; slingshot; old anchovy tin lid; tent w/2 live rats inside.

Modoc
Two trash cans; a doll; a mixing bowl. 		Nevada
Cache of Playboy magazines; 3 different toilets; a crack pipe; an old miner's lunchbox; an old Waylon Jennings Album.

Orange
Men's large underwear; a cremation wreath; push broom & oar; gas tank; garbage can; condom; purple plastic toilet seat; blowup doll; Pooh Bear; Dracula Teeth; wooden duck; strooler & boogie board; porn magazine; phone booth; stuffed Garfield; portable stereo; 2 homeless encampments; fire extinguisher; crutch; baby walker; scooter.

Sacramento
Foam foot 3" long, used for advertising a foot fungus cream; fireplace grate.

San Bernardino
Half an Easter egg; half a turtle shell (w/partial leg still attached).

San Diego
Carborator; 1/2 of a Led Zepplin Album; 1/2 bowling ball; 1/2 of a surfboard; belt buckle; picture of Elvis.

San Luis Obispo
Weather tracking device; "Just Married" sign; live Common Murre.

Santa Barbara
Bird burial box that said "My beloved Chico is dead in this box. He died of old age. He was a Good Spirit."

Santa Clara
New jar of preserved jalapenos; Ford engine; car seat; managuin; piece of paper w/ newborn baby foot prints; actual Pig hide; box of party fliers; antique 55gal drum carrier; a vehicle steering suspension piece.

Santa Cruz
Astro Glide lubricant (4 unopened tubes); bra; parol registration receipt; refrigerator; whole box of original books; axe head; toilet seat; unopened can of kidney beans; pager; dust pan.

Solano/Yolo
Sample strainer; porcupine bones; full set of CD's; animal carcass on a drain; dead goats in a bag; backpack; human leg bone (police were called); K-mart shopping cart; complete tea set.

Solano/Yolo
Check written to Taco Bell for $8.78 from a person in Twin Falls, Idaho; fridge magnet in the shape of a tooth from orthodontist in Arizona; fuzzy dice; whitewall rim tire; cowboy boots.

Yuba
Plymouth F50 Truck w/full of gas (caught someone in the act of illegal dumping); campaign sign.