NORFOLK, Va. — National Clean Beach Week comes at the perfect time after Independence Day festivities left Virginia beaches littered with trash.
The day after the Fourth of July, instead of sleeping in or lounging by the pool, community members stepped up to clean Ocean View beaches in Norfolk, WTKR reported.
After the fireworks concluded, there was significant cleaning to do on the beaches of Hampton Roads. Volunteers found everything from water bottles to watermelon remains scattered across the sand.
National Clean Beach Week is an annual campaign that aims to preserve the beauty of beaches. On Saturday, the Norfolk Park Rangers and the organization Keep Norfolk Beautiful tidied up Community Beach Park in Ocean View…