Beach Bummers: Most Polluted Southern California Beaches

Heal the Bay's 22nd Annual Beach Report Card, issued in May 2012, found nine of California's 10 dirtiest beaches -- the "Beach Bummers" -- are in Southern California. Here are the worst offenders, starting with the dirtiest. California's second most-polluted beach, Cowell Beach in Santa Cruz, is not pictured.

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