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Volunteers clean up L.A. River

Posted by: Maven on May 10, 2009 at 6:33 am

From the Los Angeles Times:

A trove of trash was plucked from the Los Angeles River on Saturday morning during the 20th annual river cleanup.

An estimated 3,000 volunteers spread out over 14 sites from the San Fernando Valley down to Long Beach. Wearing disposable gloves and armed with trash sacks, the garbage-collectors-for-a-day did their part to purge the river of all manner of trash that ends up in its 52-mile stretch. “We’ve had hot tubs and phone booths,” said Shelly Backlar, executive director of Friends of the Los Angeles River, which organizes the cleanup. “It’s almost like, ‘What am I going to find?’ ”

At the Sepulveda Basin site, volunteers used shovels to dig up old shopping carts as a bluegrass band serenaded them. (At most of the sites, people didn’t actually wade into the water.)

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May 10, 2009 · Filed Under Southern California

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