Port of San Diego Lends Hands to Creek to Bay Cleanup

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

There's a lot less trash around San Diego Bay following the 7th Annual Creek to Bay Cleanup over the weekend. On Saturday, April 25, more than 4,000 volunteers got their hands dirty at 63 cleanup sites countywide. That included the Port of San Diego's volunteer crew, which cleaned up the D Street Fill along Port tidelands in the South Bay.

Forty-five people, consisting of Port employees, other volunteers and co-cleanup captains AMEC Earth and Environmental, Inc. worked to cleanup the 1.5 mile-site, south of the Sweetwater Channel, from 9 a.m. to noon. In the three-hour time, they collected 1.4 tons of trash. Among the items picked up were tires, plastic bottles and various plastic bags. The most unusual item found by a volunteer was a one-eyed alien costume headpiece. The volunteer who picked up the bizarre item was awarded two tickets to the Birch Aquarium.

Morgan Justice-Black, with I Love A Clean San Diego, the organizers of the event, said the cleanup left temporary dumpsters "filled to the brim countywide," with thousands of pounds of debris. The most unusual items collected across the county included a trophy from 1911, a disco ball, and a wallet full of money.

Port of San Diego tenant NASSCO/General Dynamics was among the sponsors of the cleanup. Their volunteer group helped cleanup more than 5,000 pounds of trash from Southcrest Community Park on the corner of 40th and Alpha streets.