Posted on 12/01/2011 2:00:40 PM PST by greatdefender
Sanitation officials said Wednesday that they expect to haul away 30 tons of debris from the Occupy L.A. encampment –- everything from clothing to heaps of garbage to oddball curiosities left behind by the protesters who lived at the City Hall tent city for two months.
Andrea Alarcon, president of the city Public Works board, said workers already have removed 25 tons of belongings from the City Hall park, all of it heading straight to a landfill.
Sanitation crews also have vacuumed up about 3,000 gallons of water that had washed into a catch basin in recent days and are testing it for hazardous materials, she said.
Andrea Alarcon, president of the city Public Works board, said workers already have removed 25 tons of belongings from the City Hall park, all of it heading straight to a landfill.
The sheer volume of personal belongings left behind after the early morning Los Angeles Police Department raid has astonished city workers: books and CDs, luggage and boom boxes, mattresses and dining chairs, cellphones, electric razors, a small red guitar with its neck snapped –- all surrounded by dozens of collapsed and empty tents. A steady flow of people stopped by the park Wednesday to take photos and video and watch workers in white hazmat suits rake trash into neat piles.
As workers broke down tents and placed them in trash cans, Ramir Delgado, 25, snapped photos out of curiosity.
Sanitation crews also have vacuumed up about 3,000 gallons of water that had washed into a catch basin in recent days and are testing it for hazardous materials, she said.
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garbage in...garbage stays in......
It sounds like the bulk of it is perfectly usable stuff. Well, except for the fact that it’s been used by vermin for a while.
What other surprises can be hidden inside?
Dry it out a little bit and I bet that "water" has a street value in the $millions!
The filth left behind is pristine compared to the filth removed by the LAPD on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. Degeneracy has become a way of life for more and more of these creatures.
A groundskeeper stated on the TV news that they will have to now assess the health of the trees and the ground itself, which has been pounded into a hardened surface. The roots of the trees could be damaged and dried out because they could not be watered during the two months.
Occupiers are obviously not troubled by environmental notions.
Occupy vermin leave behind tons of garbage on public grounds. Tea Party participants leave the public grounds CLEANER than they found it. It just shows the group that truly has respect for the US taxpayers.
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