Annual cleanup to close street Saturday morning

Back Bay Drive in Newport Beach will be closed from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday for the annual Upper Newport Bay cleanup, authorities said.

The 24th annual California Coastal Cleanup Day sponsored by the California Coastal Commission will bring volunteers to the edges of Upper Newport Bay Saturday morning and afternoon to pick up whatever scraps they can to keep the bay clean.

Newport Beach’s Back Bay Science Center will coordinate the event.

Volunteers will walk the shoreline and area around it with others working from small boats in adjoining waterways, officials said.

The street will be closed to all traffic northbound from Back Bay Drive north of San Joaquin Hills Road. Access to Back Bay Drive will be closed to bikes as well from northbound traffic at San Joaquin Hills Road and from Eastbluff Drive.

— Joseph Serna