Rep. Dave Min’s request for $1 million dollars for the San Gabriel River Trash initiative was recently approved by the EPA.  Seal Beach District One Council Member Joe Kalmick announced the funding at last week’s City Council meeting. … The River Trash Initiative is a working group made up of Seal Beach, Long Beach, Orange County, Los Angeles County, the Surfrider Foundation (North Orange County and Long Beach chapters) and the offices of Assembly members Diane Dixon and Josh Lowenthal. … The website sgrcleanup.com, the website for the River Trash Initiative, put the volume of river trash at more than 300 tons in the years 2021, 2022, and 2023.

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