Quite possibly the most beautiful dump in the world, no amount of intellectual design effort that is now currently applied to projects such as Fresh Kills in NYC could possibly hope to create the tumbled glass splendor at Glass Beach. Only decades of waste disposal hurled off of the cliffs at Fort Bragg, California by its residents could make something that amazes in its dichotomous splendor. They discarded glass, appliances, and even cars. The land was owned at that time by the Union Lumber Company, and locals referred to it as "The Dumps." Sometimes fires were lit to reduce the size of the trash pile.
In 1967, the North Coast Water Quality Board and city leaders closed the area. Various cleanup programs were undertaken through the years to correct the damage.
Over the next several decades the pounding waves cleansed the beach, wearing down the discarded glass into the small, smooth, colored trinkets that cover the beach today. In 2002, the California State Park system purchased the 38-acre (150,000 m2) Glass Beach property, and after cleanup it was incorporated into MacKerricher State Park.
NOTE: Photos courtesy of ++ Colossal
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/08/glass-beach/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Beach_(Fort_Bragg,_California)
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