Trash removal along border receives state funding
By Janine Zúñiga
STAFF WRITER 2:00 a.m. January 22, 2009

TIJUANA RIVER VALLEY — State waste officials have awarded $250,000 in grants to the California Department of Parks and Recreation for a trash-removal system along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The money from the California Integrated Waste Management Board will be used to install the trash-removal system, which state parks officials previously had designed and bought but had not used. The system will be installed in Goat Canyon tidal basins that trap sediment when it rains.

“The sediment basins are very effective in capturing sediment, but not the trash that can collect there and that washes away with the next big storm,â€