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International Coastal Cleanup Day On Kohala Coast
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by Big Island Video News
on Sep 23, 2019 at 7:22 am

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KOHALA COAST - The organization Keep Puako Beautiful held its annual Get the Drift and Bag It cleanup at various locations on Saturday.

image courtesy Lynn Beittel

(BIVN) – The annual International Coastal Cleanup Day was held in West Hawaiʻi on Saturday.

The event was centered at Hapuna Beach, according to volunteer Lynn Beittel, who shared images of the clean-up. “We were sent to the Puako Boat ramp parking lot where we found trash in addition to an abandoned vehicle and broken safety glass on the ground,” she commented.

image courtesy Lynn Beittel

Beittel’s photos show a large amount of marine debris was gathered up and hauled away.

The beach clean-up took place from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

image courtesy Lynn Beittel


Filed Under: Kohala Tagged With: Hapuna, Puako

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