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# Waves of support for cleaner coast
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/waves-of-support-for-cleaner-coast/
- Published: 2006-02-11T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:15:04.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Environment, Santa Monica, #archive-import

This past week, Q-line asked: What are you willing to pay for a cleaner coast?

Here are your responses: TIMES BY LLOYD GARVER “Coastal waters would never have gotten to the deplorable state they are at if the city had enforced the regulations on the books for years. They should have listened to the suggestions of people like Heal the Bay as to find better ways to control and improve water quality and beach cleanliness. Once again the city’s negligence is going to cost the taxpayers even more money. I’m not willing to pay anything. Let the city’s money to the bums pay for it. Use that money to clean up what was beautiful coastline for the citizens.” “Some 50 years ago the Hyperion sewage treatment facility was constructed for the purpose of filtering the sewage flow of the few million people, who at that time resided in Los Angeles County. The sewer pipeline carrying treated sewage only extends five miles out to sea, an adequate distance at that time. However, foresight indicated that the sewage pipeline should have extended 25 miles out to sea. Then as now, the cost was prohibitive. The geography of the Santa Monica Bay enables the treated sewage to flow from the five-mile pipeline back into the bay. I personally would not spend a dime to cleaning up the coast due to the only solution being less people making the mess.” “Paying a small tax would be so beneficial to Santa Monica in cleaning up the beach. The beach and the water bring in such a huge amount of tourist dollars to Santa Monica and you sell something that is not usable. Look at Orange County and how many times they had to close their beaches. Santa Monica is very fortunate in the fact that we don’t have to do that. I think a reasonable amount, as long as it is going solely to beach clean up would be so beneficial.” “Maybe property values in LA have made us all millionaires on paper, yet that is only if we sell out and move to Iraq. In the meantime, our worthless city staff dreams up more exorbitant schemes to fleece us. Let’s flush the entire city staff down the storm drains and use this money for the clean up.” “I am willing to pay a little more for a cleaner coast but one thing has to happen before that. We have to go to all these surrounding cities like West LA and Culver City, and see how all their water gutters are covered with junk. Something needs to be done about that since it greatly contributes to the environmental disaster we are experiencing on our coasts.” “Wow, hold onto your wallets. We are in for a hosing. The water is not that bad to swim in. Certainly not $95 million bad. Where is LA County, the state and federal money on this supposed problem? Most problems in this town are magnified disproportionate to reality. City Hall is where the clean up is needed.” “I am willing to pay absolutely nothing. Those responsible should pay for cleaning up the beaches and coastal waters. It is not Hummer-owners, meat-eaters, and others. The coast needs cleaning up because there is a lot of junk going into the ocean. Each person contributes to that. More people means more junk. Those responsible are those who contribute to overpopulation. Whatever the cause, it is a lost cause without population control.” “I think we shouldn’t have to pay for cleaning up the beaches. Those who litter should have to pay. $500 fines for littering would bring in revenue for the city and beaches would remain clean.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 11, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/021106.pdf?ref=smdp.com)