Have you ever had the misfortune of living next door to people who, by their sloppy, inconsiderate, thoughtless and slovenly behavior, suggest to you that they are better suited for life in a cheap trailer park?
Those are the toughts some of us in San Francisco are having about some (not all) of our neighbors in the East Bay and South Bay.
In the photo a shopping cart sits in the waters of Cerrito Creek in Richmond. A major portion of the trash entering San Francisco Bay comes from this area of the East Bay. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/GINA)
If you're wondering why I am upset with some of the people living in the East Bay and South Bay, just take a look at what those people are doing to our Bay. They are destroying it with their thoughtlessness and inconsiderate behavior. It is unfair to their immediate neighbors and it is unfair to all of us in the Bay Area.
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Of the areas identified by the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board as sources of major pollution and trash, the East Bay and the South Bay are the prime offenders. People in the North Bay and people in San Francisco have an almost exemplary record of good behavior. We take care of our Bay, but our neighbors do not. It would be easy to conclude that people in the East Bay and the South Bay are a general negative for the community.
If you live in San Jose, Sunnyvale or Palo Alto you need to know that you also live in one of the primary trash-producing communities that are destroying San Francisco Bay. You are living in the midst of people who carelessly litter. The incomes in Silicon Valley are high, but the the "good citizen" rating is dismal. It is a high-tech / low-ethics community.
If you live in either the East or South Bay and don't like what you're reading, use that angry energy to do something to make your community (and OUR Bay) a better, cleaner place to live.
No more Trailer Trash behavior!
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By the way, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board did not identify anything in either Marin County or San Francisco County as being trash-impared for this study.
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Click here for a bad-neighbor trash map prepared by Save the Bay
Click here to see a map that identifies the sources of the trash (from the San Francisco Chronicle)
Read more from the Chronicle.
For extensive reports, details and how you can help, visit the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.
The best source of information and the place where you are most likely to find ideas, find help, find like-minded people and find solutions is: Save the Bay. Visit their website!
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An update: Now that Marin City has polluted the Bay by dumping thousands of gallons of partially-treated human refuse, we have got to put Marin County in the same class as the East Bay and South Bay communties that have such bad scorecards.
The East Bay and South Bay may be littering and dumping tons of trash into the Bay, but at least they are not flushing their feces into the Bay as Marin City is doing.
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