Community clean up effort/Knights Ferry

Hi all! I'm no professional organizer or planner but I feel compelled to do something about the extreme trash situation at the Knights Ferry covered bridge river area. I am new to the region and have been doing my share of exploring and when I found out how close I lived to the Knights Ferry river area I quickly started to take advantage of all its fun and beauty. One thing That kept standing out to me was the immense amount of trash that was EVERYWARE. I'm not talking usual junk at the picnic area but all along the trails and river banks, it was awful. My uncle who likes to climb was with me one day enjoying the boulders in the area and we got to talking about starting a clean up effort. Somehow get the wheeling, climbing, fishing and overall outdoor community out to clean BBQ and mingle. If anyone has any ideas or input that would help I'm all ears. We have no date set up because we are testing the waters for interest. What do yall think?

 

I don't live in NorCal but I commend you for getting the ball rolling on this. It's a big problem down here too, particularly in well traveled outdoor areas and esp out in the desert regions. So many people treat those areas like their personal dumping grounds. I called a lady out (grown woman, 40s+) for throwing a mask on the ground the other day and she just flipped me off.

 

One idea is to pick a date, have a plan of what and how you will accomplish the task. Then figure out what resources you will need (like bags and a dumpster). A weekend would be best. The area has camping so maybe the payoff is camping and bbq. You might be able to encourage the trash company to come park a truck with their name on it or provide a dumpster for the recycling and trash. Maybe a porta potty place too.

You’ll need to coordinate with the land managers to help with the date and permission stuff. They might have rules to follow as well.

Or maybe talk to the land manager and set a date where people come and do a low key pickup.

 

Such good advice!

 

Its a mixed use area. Stan county manages most of it. The US Army owns/manages a chunk of it as well. Ironically they will be touchy about anything that happens near the waterway including a organized cleanup, even though they wont send any staff to go clean it up. So contact them and see what they say. If you get the right person on the right day everything will be nice and easy, just make sure you note who you talked to and the particulars of the convo incase you get hasseled later.

https://stanislausriver.com/

https://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Stanislaus-River-Parks/

 

Thanks all.

 

This guy might be a good resource.

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/...aign/103-539481e0-cb72-4136-99f4-eeb8ba1f8e93

 

idk. Climbing down into places that are sketch? Bad choices in my book.

 

Possibly, but helping to removing 22,416 pounds of trash isn’t a bad choice.

https://www.roamlost.com/

 

Ending up dead or putting others at risk over a small percentage of trash is a bad choice.