Environmental question about trash line from flood.

[trof]

I live on a brackish bay (fresh water creeks feed into it from the north and it flows down to the intracoastal waterway).

I had a 'tide line' of organic trash from the heavy rains and flooding we've had in coastal Alabama.

Mostly leaves and pine straw.
Would it be wrong to just blow it back into the bay?
That's where it came from and where it would be if it hadn't breached my waterfront bulkhead.

What say you.

The alternative is to gather it all up, take it to the street, and the city will pick it up.

[HooptieWagon]

1. Either.

It might be unsightly and foul boat water intakes if blown back into bay, but there wont be an adverse environmental impact. Or rake it up, let city haul it to dump where it becomes compost material.

Edit: another argument against blowing it back into bay is that it will wash up on someone else's beach or seawall, leaving them additional mess to clean up. But do what you want.

[trof]

2. Not to parse too finely, but...

I'm also thinking about the gasoline burned/pollution and cost for the grapple truck and the same for transport to the dump site.
Then the same for the grinder that turns it into mulch.

Then there's the cost to 'rake it up'.
I'm 72 with a back problem.
I'd have to hire a clean up crew.
Once it dries out, I can blow it myself.

[HooptieWagon]

3. Blow it back into bay then.

[pscot]

4. Pick out the plastic

and netting or fishing line. Paper will biodegrade but plastic is forever.