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Due to a recent storm in San Diego, large swaths of Mission/Pacific Beach houses and the boardwalk were left with tons of sand all over them.

The city scoops up the sand off the boardwalk and loads it into trucks which take it a few miles away to Fiesta Island.

Why? Apparently it is contaminated badly enough by whatever is on the boardwalk, that they don't want to just push it back onto the beach (and back into the water).