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Artesia, California 90701
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Artesia News
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The City of Artesia makes annual contributions to the County of Los Angeles Media Campaigns promoting clean stormwater and clean beaches.
This year the County is using part of our contribution to help support the CALTRANS “Don’t Trash California” Media Campaign. As part of the campaign, and due to our city’s contributions, mobile billboards were sent out throughout the County and visited our city for approximately a week in the month of July.
In the photo at left, Artesia’s mayor John Martins, Mayor Pro Tem Sally Flowers, and council members Tony Lima and Victor Manalo stand in front of one of the mobile billboards that are sending out the message, “Don’t Trash California.”
Who wants to look at mile after mile of litter-filled freeways and highways? Roads are covered in cigarette butts, fast food wrappers, soda and coffee cups...But litter is more than ugly—it's actually harmful to our waterways including lakes, rivers and beaches.
Many people don't know that litter and pollution from our freeways and highways can wind up in the storm drains. While the storm drains are meant to carry clean rainwater off the roads, any litter and debris that ends up in them can actually flow directly into our rivers, creeks and ultimately to our beaches. This means that the water we swim in, sail in and surf in can get more and more polluted with each piece of litter that is tossed onto the roadways.
The Don't Trash California program is a 22-month effort to help combat this problem, but you can also help. Start by keeping a litterbag in your car that you toss into a trashcan when it's full. If you smoke dispose of your cigarette butts properly and never throw anything into the storm drains. For more information please visit www.888cleanla.com. You can also participate in the California Coastal Cleanup Day to be held on September 15 by visiting www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/ccd.html.
So as Mayor John Martins and the City Council would say “Don’t Trash California by Not Trashing Artesia.” That's a neat and clean solution, right?
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