Crews Make Coronado Like New Again

Take a glance at Coronado from the beach to Tidelands Park. The clean-up was massive, as it is every year after July 4th, but everything is all clear, with most of the work done mere hours after the holiday was over.

To accomplish that, the city filled three 20-foot by 8-foot containers – the size you normally see at construction sites – according to parks supervisor Ricky Fernandez. The bins were hauled away Tuesday.

Where did all that trash come from? Mostly food rubbish that filled 18 miniature trailers (pulled by trucks) with trash from the packed parks and city beaches.

Crews also consistently emptied 144 33-gallon trash cans
placed along Orange Avenue from 1st Street to Adella Avenue during Monday's parade, which attracted tens of thousands to Coronado's streets.

The final step? It's all in the details. Fernandez's workers fanned out through noon Tuesday to pick up the bits of debris that are inevitable when fireworks are involved.

“It's like nothing happened,” Fernandez said. “It's back to business as usual.”