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I was unable to be at this creek during the 2014 Coastal Cleanup Day due to prior scheduling of cleaning up a different set of waters. However, look how great the San Tomas Aquino Creek looks one week after the first official 49ers football game! Many thanks to the someone or many someones who came out to clean the creek this weekend whether they were volunteers or stadium staff - that I don't know yet.
This is what I saw on this morning's bike to work, September 22. It is much better than last week.
A flower is blooming quite happily a little south from the stadium with basically no litter in sight.
This black squirrel was the first critter I saw when I got to the creek this morning.
Low tide today - I'm never quite sure just how far inland the tide gets, but Alviso supposedly gets up to an 11' swing from low to high tide, suggesting the bay waters get pretty far down here. Last time this area was pretty clear of any litter - it's nice to see it's stayed that way.
Look! No trash!
Look how clean this area is - there even isn't a whole lot of "micro-trash" I saw last time.
For those of you who don't remember, here is what it looked like last Wednesday, September 17.
Granted, it wasn't perfect - this was near one of the bridges, but this one can't be blamed on a mass influx of stadium traffic.
Nor can this Little-Tikes kiddie chair - this looks like it's been there a while and showed itself again at low tide.
A great blue heron came out to play this morning with the ducks and great egret and snowy egret.
I won't hold my breath quite yet, for another game is this Sunday, and there will be no Coastal Cleanup day the following Saturday. Unless, of course all the marvelous cleanup work was done by the stadium staff - then who knows?
Thanks again, mystery cleanup crew! Your efforts are greatly appreciated.
Check out last week to compare.
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