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Volunteers Clean Up Litter and Graffiti
By Terri Bebo
Caltrans and Keep California Beautiful (KCB) employees picked up enough roadside trash throughout the state to fill one and a half Olympic-sized swimming pools on March 4.
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CHP Valley Division Chief Adam Cuevas and Director Kempton spoke at the Great American Cleanup kick-off event in Old Sacramento. |
Landscape and road maintenance crews; special program inmates, probationer and California Conservation Crews; volunteer Caltrans crews and Adopt-A-Highway groups scoured 2,500 shoulder-miles of roadsides to clean up 4,700 cubic yards of trash statewide. They also removed 56,000 square feet of graffiti from sound walls, bridges and other roadside structures.
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Volunteer Caltrans crews and Adopt-A-Highway groups cleaned up 4,700 cubic yards of trash across the state. |
Caltrans spent nearly $710,000 on this one-day beautification effort that coincided with Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup campaign.
Headquarters external affairs worked with district public information officers to coordinate local media coverage. Maintenance deployed portable changeable message signs stating, “Don’t Trash California,” from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. throughout the state and informed the public about the clean-up progress as the day went on.
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The changeable message sign (CMS) read “Don’t Trash California” on March 4. |
Caltrans will continue to promote partnerships with community, private and government sector stakeholders to reduce litter since they are crucial to the success of the California Department of Transportation Litter Abatement Plan. The Department will also continue to plan statewide and district-wide litter removal and beautification events, as well as encourage the public to join our efforts.
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Somerville’s crew set up cones along the highway near a shaded spot while volunteers picked up trash along the roadside. |
District 8’s video can be seen at http://www.veoh.com/videos/v6324355tNhSycx2.
For more information about becoming an Adopt-A-Highway volunteer, visit
http://adopt-a-highway.dot.ca.gov/