Every time one of these makeshift homeless communities pops up, the mounds of trash are a sorry sight and health hazard. Dallas has a lot on its plate, but it’s...
An environmental crisis grows in an often-forgotten part of the city that most of us see only as we speed by on I-35.
Urbano Zepeda helps clean an encampment Tuesday that sits on the edge of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River. Garrett Boone has tried for months to get help from the city of Dallas to keep trash out of the Elm Fork as well as West Joe’s Creek and Joe’s Creek, which flow into the Elm Fork.Every stop we made Tuesday along the Elm Fork, Joe’s Creek and West Joe’s Creek, this one more a series of storm drains than actual waterway, reinforced those concerns.
“The heavier the rain, the more it flushes out their belongings,” Buckley said. Clothes, bikes, shopping carts, cooking equipment, groceries — it’s all washed toward the Elm Fork.Every encampment trash pile is an invitation to outsiders looking for an illegal dumping ground. Buckley’s crews have seen vehicles back up to a storm water ditch and deposit their load — construction debris, stripped-down generators, metal furniture, paint cans — onto an existing camp’s trash heap.
The Office of Homeless Solutions staff gathered at Joe’s Creek on Feb. 14 with various departments, according to the report, “to continue strategizing how best to sustainably address area challenges.” “We don’t have the funds to maintain those booms forever,” said Boone, who is among Greenspace’s funders and board members. He also noted the city relies on Greenspace Dallas’ work to document to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality that it is doing everything it can to mitigate trash.Greenspace Dallas hired Charlie Brown, a member of the area’s homeless community, to organize cleanups and pay a small amount to those who participate.
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