Steelhead Creek Cleanup @ Del Paso/Main 25.0, 2/14/26

Описание: 💐💘 It was a Valentine’s Day to remember!

On Saturday, Steelhead Creek could have really used an Angel, but instead it was blessed with 23 cheery folks excited to continue work on the massive Pallet Penthouse Camp, discovered last week by the Wednesday crew. But first, we were asked to address 2 recently abandoned dry camps in the area. While the water team continued onto the PPC, others stayed back to tackle those. As is customary, those 2 areas were much worse than anticipated, resulting in 2 full trailer loads being transported and transferred into 1 of the 2 bins provided by the City.

After nearly 2 hours, everyone had finally arrived at the main daily target - the massive Pallet Penthouse Camp. This camp is located in the middle of the creek, 200 feet or more from the levee, featuring a pallet structure with over 80 pallets surrounded by fields of wet, muddy trash and debris. With so much debris blocking access, the water team wasn't able to safely access the pallet structure, and instead focused on the surrounding debris, covered in water and mud. By the time the dry team arrived, the water team had already amassed a massive pile of wet, muddy gunk on the levee.

Working in tandem, everyone hopped into action to ferry the debris through the creek, unload it onto the lower levee, haul it to the levee top, then load it into our trailer. This is a well-oiled system we have perfected over the past couple of years. Boat after boat, and sled after sled, of wet muck was removed from the creek. Huge carpet sections, clothing, blankets, 10 shopping carts, lumber pieces, a faux fiberglass styrofoam fireplace, metal pieces, poles, tarps, tents, plastic bins, basic kitchen trash, bicycle parts ... even the bottom well of a wave-runner!

Despite running behind schedule all-day, we nearly completed the site work on time, then rushed off to offload the overflow from the 3rd trailer load, along with the wave-runner and several shopping carts strapped to it. To our utter dismay, when we arrived back at the dumpsters, we discovered someone had already rummaged through the full dumpster and left a huge pile of debris out on the pavement. Thus, rather than simply off-loading the overflow, we were required to re-load about 1/3 of the previously loaded trash back into the dumpster. Fatigue had become very real, so this final stage was a slow and steady affair.

We would like to sincerely thank all of the volunteers for their hard work on Saturday, but especially those who stayed almost an hour overtime to complete the job. Finally, we all headed off to lunch with a full trailer load, leaving behind 1 ¼ dumpsters full of debris (that story to be continued in our Sunday post).

We would like to extend an extra thank you to Ken for donating an amazing rolling magnet that helped us remove hundreds of nails and screws from our driving paths, as well as Wayne for taking 2 propane tanks to Household Hazardous Waste. Lastly, thank you David and Lisa for unloading the first 2 trailers full of debris into the dumpster, and taking the 3rd load to the dump. The final daily haul was a very impressive 7,400 pounds!

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