Red tide -- affecting dive conditions?

[large_diver]

This is about the 10th time I've heard OGB is a mess. I haven't been to Cape Ann yet this year as I am a pansy and it has been a wee bit cool for me and well that and a lack of Lobsters. Is this normal, does the town clean it up? I am not opposed to helping clean up a dive spot, but with the way the town is about being a tad unfriendly to non-locals. I don't of course mean outright hostile (well that one tire slashing last year) but I mean the lack of parking and quick tickets for parking in questionable zones. Any way does this usually get addressed or are we in for a messy beach all year?

Yeah, it was pretty messy, with solid seaweed from water line to the sea wall. It also looks like the beach lost a fair amount of sand during the winter, given how high the water was relative to the sea wall despite the fact that we were there almost 2 hours after high tide.

I'm not sure what, if anything, the town of Rockport does about beach clean-up. I know the neighborhood around OGB normally has a "beach clean-up day" some time each spring, but given the volume of weed on the beach, they would need a full size dumpster and a significant clean-up crew to sweep it up and haul it all away. I have to assume the town will eventually do something about it.