Trash Containment Boom (Long Beach, California)
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Signal Hill /
Long Beach, California
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World / United States / California
pollution, waste
Much of the trash caught by this boom is vegetation uprooted by storm surges throughout the 834-square-mile Los Angeles River watershed, which includes 44 cities and unincorporated communities and about 9 million people.
Since 2006, Frey Environmental, Inc. of Newport Beach has removed 1,847 tons of trash from the river at a cost to the county of about $2.2 million.
Since 2006, Frey Environmental, Inc. of Newport Beach has removed 1,847 tons of trash from the river at a cost to the county of about $2.2 million.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 33°45'52"N 118°12'20"W
- SSFL-South Buffer Zone 70 km
- Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) 72 km
- Whittaker-Bermite Brownfield 78 km
- Alpha Contaminated Area/Project 57 449 km
- Kam Kotia mine site 3436 km
- Onondaga Lake 3761 km
- Belle Mead Depot (Abandoned) 3894 km
- Mid-Sound Dumpsite 4008 km
- Sydney Steel Site 5019 km
- Complexe Chimique de Safi (OCP) 9583 km
- Queensway Bay 0.9 km
- Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT) 1 km
- Downtown Long Beach 1.3 km
- North Pine 1.7 km
- Long Beach Shoreline Marina 1.9 km
- Los Angeles River (flood control) 1.9 km
- East Village 2.1 km
- Alamitos Beach 2.9 km
- Los Angeles-Long Beach Port Complex 3.5 km
- Los Angeles County, California 56 km