1.   Baking soda or vinegar keeps a drain smelling clean, etc., but does not clear accumulated debris.

2.   Older nets with more accumulated debris are louder.

3.   Parsons thinks that by intercepting the tide, the accumulated debris may allow nutrients to settle in its tranquil tide pools, thus providing a fertile muck for grasses.

4.   Western ecosystems have adapted to periodic, low intensity fires that clean out accumulated debris and thin the number of trees.