By Pat Peterson Reporter
Published: Mon, January 28, 2008 - 6:23 pm
Last Updated: Mon, January 28, 2008 - 6:53 pm
Last Updated: Mon, January 28, 2008 - 6:53 pm
Pat Peterson
"It's unhealthy," says H.D. "Peanut" Crawley. "It's an eyesore, it's just really bad. Would you want your kids to come down here and see all of this? I don't think so."
Piles of trash and litter line Highway 98 just east of the Lillian Bridge. Beer bottles, cigarettes, dirty clothes, food wrappers...even a cooler and a toaster oven greet drivers and visitors to the Sunshine State. The litter is next to the "Welcome to Florida" sign and near a historic marker.
"If law enforcement officers see you throw out a cigarette butt or a McDonald's wrapper out the window, they can stop you," says Sonya Smith, Public Information Director for Escambia County. "They can fine you and fines start at 50 dollars and go up."
Smith says the county takes littering seriously, but says they don't have the resources or the manpower to remove all the trash. Smith suggests local communities form litter patrols or get involved in the state's Adopt-A-Highway campaign.
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Excuse me, but why doesn’t the community of Paradise Beach clean up their own shore line? In Alabama the community gets together and cleans our beaches and waterways. If the community wants to get really outraged at the garbage pull up the EPA website and look at water contamination sites. All of Lillian’s waters are contaminated on both sides of the bay. Raw sewage is being spilled in heavy rains. Get outraged about that. Have you not noticed that no one swims or boats in those waters???