Cleanups To Date

40th Annual Coastal Clean-Up Day was a HUGE Success!

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Opportunities to participate will be updated here on a regular basis.

Upcoming Cleanups

  • November 9 (9:00 a.m. - Noon)
    Join the 4th Semi-Annual COASTAL CLEAN-UP!
    Clean Oceans International, along with Surfrider Foundation and One People One Reef are hosting a Coastal Cleanup on Saturday November 9th from 9-Noon at the KSCO Radio Station on Portola.
  • Coastal Watershed Council
  • Join us for Community Cleanups in the Pajaro Valley!

    Stay tuned for the release of the location community Service hours are given!

    • November 21, 2024
  • Every Monday Main Beach Cleanup in front of Board Walk at 8:00AM (join us!)

    "We really need the community to step up and help clean Main Beach, especially after Memorial Day. Today we found two dead sea birds, a dead sea otter pup along with what we regularly pick up, numerous cans, food packaging waste and cigarette butts."
    - citizen activist Donna Maurillo

Cleanups Accomplished

Home▸Cleanups Calendar▸Lee Road & West Beach Street Cleanup

Lee Road & West Beach Street Cleanup

September 28, 2023
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On Thursday the 28th of September, members of the City of Watsonville, The County of Santa Cruz, The Trash Talkers, Watsonville Wetlands Watch, and Watsonville Works came together to clean up over three miles of Lee Road and West Beach Street.

The cleanup effort lasted three and a half hours and cleaned up over 8 yards of garbage and debris. Special Thanks to John Moreno from the City of Watsonville Ramon Gomez from Supervisor Filipe Hernandez’s office, Sally-Christine Rodgers of the Trash Talkers, Jonathan Pilch of Watsonville Wetlands Watch, and the teams from Watsonville Works for their participation.

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Multiple hypodermic needles were collected. These are harmful to wild life, are in our watersheds and washing into our National Marine Sanctuary.
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Bob Culbertson of Watsonville Wetlands Watch, Josh Castillo from the City of Watsonville and Ramon Gomez from Supervisor Hernandez’s office gather trash.
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Watsonville Works Teams assist in cleanup efforts in South County.
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This is the kind of thoughtless illegal dumping that is destroying our land and significantly costing taxpayers and our cities to clean up.
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