Keep the Cooley Landing and Bay Trail shoreline clean with a monthly sweep.

The shoreline at Cooley Landing, a former dump the community turned into its only bayfront park, still collects wind-blown and tide-carried trash against its marsh edge. This stretch of the Bay Trail is East Palo Alto's front porch on the bay, and the marsh beside it is endangered-species habitat. A monthly sweep from the trail keeps both clean.

Where

Bay Trail at Cooley Landing Park, Bay Road, East Palo Alto, CA 94303 · Open the map

Pay

$180 proposed

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Proof

Before/after shoreline photos plus weighed tally

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-19

Posted by

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Walk the trail and paved shoreline edges with bags, gloves, and grabbers.
2. Collect litter from the trail and dry upper edge only, never step into the marsh or mud.
3. Tally item types on the data card and sort recycling.
4. Weigh and stage bags at park bins.
5. Photograph before and after plus the tally card.

What counts as done

• GPS-tagged before and after photos of the same stretch
• Photo of the completed data card
• Photo of weighed bags on a hand scale

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Coastal Habitat. Coastal habitat is the green fringe where land meets sea: eelgrass meadows, kelp beds, salt marsh. Acre for acre these are among the most life-giving places on Earth, nursery to the fish and buffer to the storm, and NOAA's assessment methods exist because they are quietly shrinking. Mastery looks like a person who can survey a stretch of shore and say, with evidence, whether the meadow is spreading or retreating. This packet is one piece of that watching: one site, one careful observation, one record added to the long ledger of the coast.