Wally the dead whale finally laid to rest in landfill

FILE - In this July 17, 2016, file photo, a surfer walks past the dead whale that washed up on Encinitas beach in San Diego, Calif. The rotting carcass of a 45-foot-long female named Wally was cut up on an Encinitas beach on July 18 and trucked to a San Diego landfill, The Los Angeles Times reports. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, File) (The Associated Press)

FILE - In this July 1, 2016, file photo, a bulldozer pushes a dead humpback whale that washed ashore at Dockweiler Beach back into the ocean along the Los Angeles coastline. The dead whale kept floating up near Southern California beaches has finally been laid to rest. The rotting carcass of a 45-foot-long female named Wally was cut up on an Encinitas beach Monday, July 18, 2016, and trucked to a San Diego landfill, The Los Angeles Times reports. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File) (The Associated Press)

FILE - In this July 1, 2016, file photo, lifeguards tie a dead humpback whale's tail after it was washed ashore at Dockweiler Beach along the Los Angeles coastline. The dead whale kept floating up near Southern California beaches has finally been laid to rest. The rotting carcass of a 45-foot-long female named Wally was cut up on an Encinitas beach Monday, July 18, 2016, and trucked to a San Diego landfill, The Los Angeles Times reports. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File) (The Associated Press)

A dead humpback whale that kept floating up near Southern California beaches has finally been laid to rest.

The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/2ad5vH9 ) says the rotting carcass of a 45-foot-long female named Wally was cut up on an Encinitas beach on Monday and trucked to a San Diego landfill.

The body of the 15-year-old female was towed about a half-dozen times since it first washed ashore at Dockweiler State Beach in Los Angeles County on June 30.

Currents kept pushing it south. It was repeatedly towed out to sea after showing up off several Orange County beaches and finally came ashore over the weekend at Grandview Beach in Encinitas.