DCSO deputies pitch in, help clean trash from Deschutes River banks in Bend
After NewsChannel 21's recent story on a Bend native who was removing trash left at homeless camps along the Deschutes River, Deschutes County sheriff's deputies stepped in to assist on Thursday, removing about 1,300 pounds of garbage.
While it us known homeless populations do not have means to dispose of a lot of waste it is important to note the trash is likely not all from them. Winds, waters, and people who are not homeless also contribute. Thank you to those who are able to clean it up.
What’d mean they don’t have the resources, they simply don’t care.
I agree, they have no self respect, or dignity. But Bend will change that by wiping their rear end for them. Bend cleans up after them while the culprits go drink and smoke down at the bottle return. The city is not helping them turn their lives around.
Let any one of those bums “camp” on your property and see how much of that trash just blows in with this wind and water you are speaking of.
Lol, God that’s funny.
So basically DCSO folks were shamed into doing this because a private citizen decided it needed to be done. And the DCSO folks were getting paid to do this work while the private citizen was not. Uh…Okay…
Your bias against DCSO is rather evident. If you have watched any past news recently you would know that DCSO has been removing trash dumps from known areas. I would guess that the one on the river was off there radar until seeing the news and knowing that a person was doing a good thing solo they jumped in to help. By the way what are you doing to help?
I went by this area yesterday and it looks like a bomb went off. For whatever reason, not only is the trash gone, but so is most of the vegetation, at least along Division. Maybe they were using more than just their hands to clean up, but it looks pretty sad right now.
That is just on the canal right of way access, that area was utilized as “deck”, to which the trash collected in the canyon was hauled out of the canyon and loaded into vehicles to be hauled to the county landfill.
Thanks. I did think it was odd that the area right next to the road was so bad. Maybe the City could come along and do a bit of replanting, to compensate for its long-term neglect of the problem.