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# Santa Monica Asks Residents What They Will Pay for a Cleaner Coast
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/020906-story/
- Published: 2006-02-09T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:12:08.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Environment, Santa Monica, #archive-import

Santa Monica residents will soon be polled as to whether they are interested in cleaning the city’s beaches and coastal waters, and whether they’re willing to pay for it.

A soon-to-be-released cleanup plan would make Santa Monica compliant by 2020 with several new environmental regulations. City officials say there will be a considerable need for a new funding source for the project. Capital costs alone could reach $95 million over a period of 15 years. In addition, operating and maintenance costs could at least double the current $36 annual stormwater fee homeowners pay, according to a recent staff report.

So this week, Q-Line wants to know, “What are you willing to pay for a cleaner coast?”

Call (310) 285-8106 before Friday at 5 p.m. and we’ll print your responses in the weekend edition. Please try to limit your comments to a minute or less. It might help to think first about the wording of your response.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 9, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/020906.pdf?ref=smdp.com)