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Lifeguards from the L.A. County Fire Department keep beachgoers safe.
Workers from the L.A. County Department of Beaches and Harbors keep the beach and facilities clean.
The beach is plowed each morning to remove litter.
Rather than using a garbage truck, a pick up truck and tractor cart away garbage bags of trash.
Occasionally when there is a lot of seaweed washed up, the tractor will scrape some of it away.

Managing urban runoff is key to protecting water quality in Santa Monica Bay (>).
Rustic Creek.   See also: Clara Harter.  "Stormwater pollution needs a tidal wave of solutions."  Santa Monica Daily Press, Aug. 21, 2021.
Temescal Canyon.
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