Thread: 14,000 hypodermic needles cleaned out from homeless encampments

Thousands of pounds of human waste, close to 14,000 hypodermic needles cleaned out from Santa Ana River homeless encampments


A syringe found by county workers cleaning up trash around a homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River Trail in Anaheim, on Wednesday, February 14, 2018. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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By THERESA WALKER | thwalker@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: March 8, 2018 at 6:00 pm | UPDATED: March 9, 2018 at 6:02 pm

Orange County Public Works released eye-popping figures Thursday, March 8, on the total amount of debris, needles and hazardous waste removed when crews cleaned up the area along the Santa Ana River Trail once populated by the encampments of homeless people.

Here’s what was collected between Jan. 22 and March 3 from a more than two-mile stretch of bike trail roughly from I-5 in Orange to Ball Road in Anaheim, according to OC Public Works spokesman Shannon Widor:

• 404 tons of debris
• 13,950 needles (approximate number based on what disposal containers hold)
• 5,279 pounds of hazardous waste (human waste, propane, pesticides and other materials)

Before and after photographs published by the Register last week show stark differences at different spots along the trail, as does a video the county posted Feb. 28 on YouTube.

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Crews from the Orange County Conservation Corps work to clean trash left behind by homeless people on the Santa Ana River Trail in Anaheim on Monday, Feb 26, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)


More than 700 people were living in the encampments when they were dismantled in late February. Most of those people are being housed temporarily in local motels while county outreach workers assess their need for services and housing.

The bike trail cleanup is the beginning of an environmental remediation effort that was expected to include the removal of 2 to 3 inches of soil in the project area and tree trimming.

Planned improvements on the bike trail from Katella to Ball Road/Taft Avenue also could include sealing cracks and applying a slurry seal, Widor said.

https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/0...s-encampments/

TURNS OUT MOST OF THE HOMELESS ARE:

The lazy,

the crazy,

drug addicts,

alcoholics,

ex-cons,

registered sex offenders,

etc.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

TURNS OUT MOST OF THE HOMELESS ARE:

The lazy,

the crazy,

drug addicts,

alcoholics,

ex-cons,

registered sex offenders,

etc.

In other words, the unemployed who are hard to employ.

Give them FREE bus tickets to Mexico. They dump their trash on us...dump ours on them

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Orange County supervisors on Tuesday committed to spend $70.5 million to create permanent supportive housing for the homeless, and in the short term will open up temporary homeless camps on county land.

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Gee, sounds like the migrant camps in EU - only these are American citizens that have had to move out of the way for the illegals taking over CA (with gov brown's direction/ok). These homeless are not illegals would presume. brown would never allow them to bear that hardship.

Surge in Latino homeless population 'a whole new phenomenon' for Los Angeles
www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-latino-homeless-20170618-story.html
Jun 18, 2017 - Latino homelessness in L.A. County shot up by 63% in the past year, a staggering number in a county home to the most cost-burdened renters nationwide. ... Homeless men, most of them undocumented Latinos, have a meal at a facility that also offers shelter in Los Angeles. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles ...

Surprise, started out as the unemployed, drug users, mental problem Americans. Guess the illegals found another way to live undocumented in USA - IN THE STREETS. They can anchor baby and get placed in a residence faster too. brown will take care of them, they know that.

$2 billion to help house California's homeless isn ... - Los Angeles Times
www.latimes.com/.../la-pol-ca-homeless-housing-bond-stalled-20180301-story.html
Mar 1, 2018 - Nearly two years after California lawmakers approved a $2-billion bond to help finance new housing for the state's homeless,not a penny has been spent, .... Los Angeles County has by far the state's highest homeless population, nearly 59,000 people, and would receive the largest amount of revenue from ...