Valley Water's Environmental Creek Cleanup Committee will discuss the issue Friday before a final board vote in June.
Valley Water and the City of San Jose have a problem: trash and pollutants from encampments along their waterways.
For many, like Ruben Salas who lives in an encampment along the Guadalupe River in San Jose, being unhoused is not a choice.San Jose residents get heated over option to move homeless encampment To stop people from living along the waterways, Valley Water is proposing an ordinance that would subject violators to $500 fines or up to 30 days of jail time."It's Valley Water's role as an environmental stewardship agency to ensure that the waterways are clean and the flood protection measures that we enact work as they're designed to," Valley Water Watershed Operations & Maintenance Asst. Officer of Good Neighbor Program Mark Bilski said.
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