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Cleaning the Canal

Submitted by on Friday, May 19, 2006 – 10:07 pm2 Comments |

Occassionally during Lucky’s morning walk along the canal, you see a couple of men in a boat pulling out the trash from the canal. The canal is actually cleaner than it was several years ago but it still is not relatively safe to swim in. Maybe in 5-10 years.

phunhuan17 Cleaning the Canal

(The trash is caught on a line across the canal to be later pulled out by several men during high tide)

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Oddly enough, the trash collectors dump the garbage they collect into the canal. Once or twice a week, the guys in the boat clean it out of the canal. The routine starts over again.

still primitive public services and their equipments