San Gabriel Valley : A CLEAN SWEEP
Organizers of an annual trash pickup event in San Gabriel Canyon met Thursday evening to announce that their 15-year war on litter was successful.
Maybe too successful.
Operation Super Sweep, a post-Memorial Day weekend program that once drew over 800 volunteers, may have “worked itself out of business,” said Tom Spencer, a Mt. Baldy District recreation officer.
“They did so much work and other [environmental] programs have been put into place, that now there is not that much trash to pick up,” Spencer said.
Despite a dwindling volunteer turnout, Operation Super Sweep collected several thousand pounds of garbage from more than 40 miles of roadway each year. Last year alone a team of 400 cleared over 25,000 pounds of debris, said Marie Lopez, administrative assistant for the Los Angeles Agriculture Department. . . .
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