Locals shocked after making disturbing discovery at bottom of lagoon: 'We didn't know how bad it was'

Locals shocked after making disturbing discovery at bottom of lagoon: 'We didn't know how bad it was'

Volunteers banded together to remove 460 pounds of debris from a Washington waterway on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, reported Gig Harbor Now. Community members and young conservation workers joined forces to clean up Burley Lagoon at the mouth of Burley Creek. The strangest finds included car tires packed with crumbling Styrofoam, likely debris from rafts that drifted in after breaking apart. The cleanup crew also removed footwear, plastic bottle…