healtheocean
By Heal the Ocean
With funding help from Heal the Ocean, Earthcomb and its amazing founder, Andrew Velikanje, tackled a 3-day cleanup of an abandoned homeless encampment from a Summerland hillside, stretching from the Union Pacific railroad tracks to the top of a beach wall in Summerland.
The Summerland Citizens Association (SCA) contracted Earthcomb and gathered a dedicated team together. Despite the difficult terrain and working on the site for three days, the Earthcomb team successfully hauled out the trash and debris from an abandoned homeless camp. Nobody had tackled it for years because of the difficulty of the terrain, but nothing is too difficult for Earthcomb!
Maneuvering along the railroad tracks, the team removed large and heavy pieces of pipes from a challenging cliffside location. Meticulously cutting up discarded quarter-inch pipes, the workers made sure there were no harmful materials left behind.
We thank the SCA for its Beach Watch Committee, which keeps an eye on Summerland Beach, and for directing their attention to this long-standing hazard. Earthcomb works in association with Heal the Ocean, so if you see a mess that needs cleanup, contact us!
That camp and its former residents, were terrible. Glad it is cleaned up.
“Love Wins” was amid all the graffiti 3/15 in an aerial view of that area. 🙂
So many owe so much to so few! Everyone who enjoys those beaches, travels Amtrak or uses freight brought by that line, drives that stretch of 101 or uses stuff brought that way. In case nobody else noticed, that’s a small part of what I’ve called the Summerland Cliff Dwellers area. I’ve sent Ed occasional aerial pix for quite a few years now (sample links below). Sure hope we can eventually house everyone and clean up all the camps, especially those endangering our infrastructure. In looking thru a few recent pix not sent Ed, as of 3/15/2023 there appeared to be around ten people living between the freeway and sea wall. Old Edhat Pic Links: https://www.edhat.com/news/south-coast-construction – https://www.edhat.com/news/aerial-surprises
worked for me? – https://www.edhat.com/news/aerial-surprises
Thanks John!
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Tried it again and it’s working now.
I drove thru north county and I swear the county sent them all up there.
My friend in Lompoc is pissed at south county for foisting its problems on them.
Frickin’ Zombie walk this morning as I rolled thru.
I drive thru there and have to say I see new people all the time that are not from the Santa Ynez valley.
South county knock it off.
South count stop attracting them here and them pushing them on communities that never wanted SB problems.
Google finds the other one with this in the Search box (including the site:edhat.com part right after the dash) – site:edhat.com “south coast construction”
Google also finds it for me by typing this into the Search box (exactly what follows the dash, including the quotes) – site:edhat.com “aerial surprises”
Andrew!!! still going at it, thank you… – https://earthcomb.org/
who you gonna call? see the link.
Yes! Kudos to the workers, planners, supporters, Heal the Ocean, Earthcomb, and Andrew Velikanje.
And I answered them.
No, you didn’t in any sense of the word, “answer,” them.
chico berkeley: The Lompoc homeless numbers seem to be growing daily. Look at the mess at the airport. couches, trash, stolen shopping carts etc. are now lining the edge of the airport property in full view of H St. traffic. And the city just lets this go on. County should be demanding Calvert to clean up his property at the drive in. Nice mess along there now that caltrans mowed and the chopped trash is thick along Hwy 1. I don’t know where the homeless are coming from but I do see on a daily basis new ‘encampments’. all along our H St. corridor. The ATT building, a few bus stops, the building across from McDonald’s, etc. etc. We had a one person encampment at the front door of our office building last month. I personally cleaned it until I came upon the human excrement. I called the city and they refused to send a hazmat crew to come out and clean it. These people are not being sent or bussed up from the So. Coast. That is a tired ‘urban myth’. Lompoc has not yet found a way to handle encampments immediately. if they do, I would be interested in learning about what they are doing. I only see what I see on a daily basis.
These people are not being sent or bussed up from the So. Coast. That is a tired ‘urban myth’. Lompoc has not yet found a way to handle encampments immediately. if they do, I would be interested in learning about what they are doing. I only see what I see on a daily basis.
Rhe actual “myth” is that SB attracts them and distributes them thru the county.
I live in 2 other states part of he year so I’m not buying the myth because I listen when I’m in Eden Utah or Joseph Oregon and the locals hate Californians and will tell you straight up that they ship them to coastal ca because that’s where the funding is, so if you have any comprehension of what’s going on you would think differently.
No Myth.
Agree w the majority of the above posters – thank you Andrew, Earthcomb, and Heal the Ocean for doing this. This kind of garbage left to go into the ocean or for others to clean up after the fact isn’t acceptable. Some people tolerate these 101 camps, and some don’t.
good! these jerkwads were destroying my fav fishing spot. took my kid and dog there around 530am to do some fishing and around 7am two naked tweakers are throwing blows and wrestling and fighting. Yeah. My daughter started throwing rocks at them and my dog barking. I yelled at them to GTFO and one of them limped down the tracks, the other just stood there. I told him i’d be happy to call the cops if he didn’t cover himself and leave in 1 minute. he did. i used to work with a few guys at the sheriff department and would have them send some guys down there to scoot them out of the area. Great fishing spot at high tide. I’ve caught so many varieties of fish along that stretch.
What’s a living wage? Is it lower in Lompoc than the $4k/mo. rent in SB area for a 1 bdrm studio apt? Didn’t some recent surveys find that the vast majority of homeless want to be housed? How much tax money would a large majority of voters want spent on housing them? If there’s a recent decrease in SB homeless vs. Lompoc, could it be related to SB projects to provide housing for working homeless?
Wow: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/06083
This probably is not granular enough to answer that question – but it is interesting on a larger scale. https://livingwage.mit.edu/
I thought that Summerland was the designated beach in SB for naked sun worshipers?
Or 100 feet from the other park entrances.
More or less.
Hey 10:04, and all those who facilitate and support this living on the highway lifestyle – those people don’t want a “living wage”. Wake up. They don’t want to work. They’re relying on sympathy and election votes from the likes of you. Check the south 101 through town all summer full of bumper to bumper traffic. It’s due to lane closures so crews can cut back brush and trees. Wanna guess why?
Dr. BASIC once again making things up. Re-read 10:04’s post. Its a series of questions. In now way does it “facilitate and support” living in bushes.
its crazy to think that the homeless camp hauled in all that rotten drainage pipe. Seems like a Caltrans or railroad responsibility to maintain the culverts and prevent erosion.