This is what I don't understand: there are long established contingency measures for oil spill cleanup; why aren't they being followed to protect the beaches...ALL the beaches? At minimum and in response to a LACK of action on BP or other, this should be conducted at the local level.

A basic explanation: You trench the beaches. Deep trenches with sump pumps. When the oil and tar starts washing in, the water in the trench is siphoned off and the oil collects in the trenches. The contained oil is then bulldozed off and removed.

My question is: why is this not being executed on ALL beaches??? There is no excuse.

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