Coastal Cleanup at Santee Lakes

WHEN:             Saturday, September 17, 2011, 9 a.m. to noon.

WHAT:             Coastal Cleanup Day – A countywide cleanup, which is part of California Coastal Cleanup Day and the International Coastal Cleanup

HOW:             San Diego volunteers register in advance to participate at www.cleanupday.org. Volunteers bring their own reusable buckets, work gloves and water bottles.

WHO:             San Diego Coastkeeper (www.sdcoastkeeper.org) and I Love A Clean San Diego (www.cleansd.org) co-coordinate San Diego County’s cleanup, which expects more than 10,000 volunteers this year.

WHERE:             San Diego County features more than 90 sites this year at beaches and inland locations, as far east as Lakeside and south as Tijuana.

-- Coastal Cleanup Day connects residents to the link between littering and pollution and unites families, friends and neighbors as they improve the county’s public places and the health of San Diego’s environment. 

I Love A Clean San Diego and San Diego Coastkeeper co-coordinate Coastal Cleanup Day in San Diego County as part of the California Coastal Commission’s California Coastal Cleanup Day statewide. This is the largest volunteer event in our county and in the state, and when combined with The Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup, our efforts become one of the largest volunteer events across the globe.