California Coastal Cleanup Day 2001 Results


County

Volunteers

Trash

Recyclables

Statewide- Adopt-A-Highway

2,111

56,040

2,350

Alameda

3,389

82,986

2,401

Butte

172

15,580

0

Contra Costa

266

18,530

700

Del Norte

850

2,626

110

Delta

457

11,500

5,000

El Dorado

191

3,800

193

Fresno

105

1,920

0

Humboldt

1,321

8,080

1,355

Los Angeles

7,439

48,634

3,964

Marin

1,076

7,104

2,731

Mendocino

223

3,200

1,700

Monterey

1,191

3,527

1,543

Napa

200

6,000

500

Nevada

325

6,421

3,526

Orange

4,370

50,671

7,910

Placer

13

150

27

Sacramento

635

4,940

6,060

San Bernardino

89

1,986

211

San Diego

1,379

3,091

892

San Francisco

1,700

2,900

360

San Luis Obispo

1,058

5,567

3,331

San Mateo

1,462

91,417

26,940

Santa Barbara

584

11,848

818

Santa Clara

1,120

45,610

10,520

Santa Cruz

1,323

2,680

1,800

Solano

1,456

49,724

4,859

Sonoma

774

16,235

14,432

Stanislaus

90

600

0

Ventura

1,648

17,158

3,689


Total


37,017


580,525


107,922


Unusual Finds from Coastal Cleanup Day 2001


Alameda
Mini Mouse head from doll, Barbie doll leg, goat scull, suit case full of shoes, Barbie on a foam float w/a bobber, cremation container from a pet mortuary (empty), truck tires, shopping cart, full set of woman's gulf clubs in mint condition

Contra Costa

Two TVs, fishing nets, dining room table, 15 blankets, American Flag from a boat, bullet casing

El Dorado

Fake Christmas Tree, set of rollerblades on burned hide-a-bed, potted plant, two garden clippers, glasses w/sunshades

Fresno-Kings River

Brass bell, butcher knife, wheel barrel, coin operated newsstand

Humboldt

Railroad ties, roofing, firecrackers, fire hose, cheerleading pompoms, dentures,erotic poetry, half a motorcycle

Marin

Brand new $1 bill, purple plastic hippo, car seat, door frame, action figures

Mendocino

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

Monterey

Toilet seat, lead pipe, crankshaft, Mexican flag, dead seal w/ rope around it, washing machine hose, metal boat ladder - all washed in within 2 weeks, bicycle license plate, vintage coke bottle w/hermet crab living inside, coral covered rope crab trap, old fashioned Pez dispenser (Donald Duck), 3 shoes that don't match, gym bag, broken badminton racket, 2 pairs of shoes across beach, broken surfboard, broken windshield & mirrors, linoleum, full box of detergent, half a car, CB radio, 2 cell phones, anchor, tripod
Orange
Plastic bumble bee, gold bracelet, container from Navel Weapons Station (bomb squad checked it out), metal gate, raccoon skull, shotgun shell, 30 yards of shoestring tied together, jar fo pennies & pesos, a pair of flip flops, lawn mower

Placer

10' metal pole, mattress pad, spark plug, old rusted sardine can

San Diego

Metal bed frame, shoe heel, whale bone

San Francisco

Pick axe, love letter/poem, many pieces of a car, whole parking meter, fortune cookie, military uniform button, plastick coke bottle, shopping cart, 9" railroad spike, something that looked like a crankshaft, shotgun casing, door hinges, large plywood, syringe, dead bird, small bag of marijuana, front car bumper

San Luis Obispo

Computer monitor, pregnancy test unit, kidney dialysis bag

Santa Clara

Machete, stop signs, jar of pickles

Solano

Army Discharge Papers for person born in 1918 and served in Aleutian Islands, message in a bottle, Vallejo Times newspaper vending machine still full of newspapers stating Happy New Year 2001

Sonoma

Bra, prom picture, rusty sink, cordless phone, shoe, baton, plastic palm lent, golf club, piece of helm from boat