Helpers spruce up the sand at Seal Beach beach clean up - OCRegister

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• A chair with maroon-velvet upholstery is hauled away from the jetty by Zabdi Ballesteros, from left, Elazar Vilensky, Maddy Lopez and Mike LeBlanc during Save Our Beach clean-up day in Seal Beach on Saturday, June 20, 2020. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

• Volunteers take part in the Save Our Beach clean-up day in Seal Beach on Saturday, June 20, 2020. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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• Two-year-old Landon Gastelun trails along with his grandma, Leonore Rayzona, from left, his sister Tiffany, 12, and mom, Erika, as they volunteer during the Save Our Beach clean-up day in Seal Beach on Saturday, June 20, 2020. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

• Trash cans overflow with debris as volunteers take part in the Save Our Beach clean-up day in Seal Beach on Saturday, June 20, 2020. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

• Maddy Lopez watches as Mike LeBlanc dislodges a chair’s upholstery from the jetty with a knife during Save Our Beach clean-up day in Seal Beach on Saturday, June 20, 2020. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

• A chair with maroon-velvet upholstery is dislodged from the jetty by Elazar Vilensky, left, and Mike LeBlanc during Save Our Beach clean-up day in Seal Beach on Saturday, June 20, 2020. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

• Teddy, a “hard-working service dog,” according to his owner Luis Arcos, takes part in the Save Our Beach clean-up day in Seal Beach on Saturday, June 20, 2020.

• There’s plenty of trash and debris for volunteers during Save Our Beach clean-up day in Seal Beach on Saturday, June 20, 2020. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

• Volunteers take part in the Save Our Beach clean-up day, including siblings Taylor Davis, 8, center, and her 6-year-old brother Jackson in Seal Beach on Saturday, June 20, 2020. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

• Volunteers take part in the Save Our Beach clean-up day in Seal Beach on Saturday, June 20, 2020. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

• Volunteers take part in the Save Our Beach clean-up day in Seal Beach on Saturday, June 20, 2020. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

• A volunteer discards a bag of trash and rubber gloves in a dumpster during Save Our Beach clean-up day in Seal Beach on Saturday, June 20, 2020. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

The beach was in need of a major clean up.

While volunteers who usually come out ready to work in Seal Beach were stuck staying at home the past few months because of coronavirus concerns, the trash continued to flow down the San Gabriel River, sitting on the sand and stuck between rocks at the jetty.

But helpers came out armed with gloves, bags and face masks to help spruce up the area that borders Seal Beach and Long Beach.

The Save the Beach clean ups have been happening for two decades, rain or shine on the third Saturday of each month, except when coronavirus hit and put a halt to the popular project.

Waterways and urban runoff funnel debris from 52 inland cities into the San Gabriel River and then into the ocean. Since Save the Beach started hosting clean ups at this location, an estimated 150,000 volunteers have given a helping hand.

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