Though I was unable to see the photos, I’m very aware of Arizona’s highway trash issues and you have identified another area of concern. As to where is law enforcement is on these issues, I suspect they get their marching orders from the City Manager and Mayor.

We have to same situation in the Cottonwood area where the homeless and others are using vacant lots and washes within the Cottonwood City limits for their garbage can.

I and many businesses recently addressed this issue with the City Manager and Mayor of Cottonwood on trash being dumped in the Oak Creek wash near Home Depot. There were dozens of pieces of furniture and homeless related trash items were dumped.

In 2009, we remove over 70 bags in this same 400 yard section of wash. Besides the trash we removed a queen sized bed spring, several electronic appliances, old tires, a sheet of plywood, a old typewriter plus water, alcohol and soda containers. The fast food industry was well represented as well.

Once we brought this one particular case (of many) to the City of Cottonwood, Mayor Diane Joens took the bull by the !$!$’s and cleaned this one area up. Most all of the washes in Cottonwood need to be cleaned up and brush pruned back to make it more difficult for those who trash.

You might want to contact EPA, DEQ, and your local media. If you present the story and photos that will get some results. I have offered to work with the City of Cottonwood on locating and addressing this issue within the Cottonwood city limits.

If you contact the SedonaEYE.com, they have my permission to give you my contact information and we can discuss working together. Nothing like partnering to restore the beauty to America and Arizona the beautiful.

Remember that the EYE as in SedonaEYE is everywhere and they tell the stories others may avoid.

Gary Chamberlain
“Point Man”
Folksville USA

“The Truth:
The photos were taken in 2007 by members of the Minute Man Civil Defense Corps, a border watchdog group, who discovered the litter while they were in the Sonoran Desert just South of Tucson, Arizona. The scene is what the Minute Man group called a “layup,” an area where illegal immigrants gather when they have reached the U.S. and where they will meet with those who have arranged for transportation for them. They typically have backpacks full of clothing, food, and other supplies for their long trek to or across the U.S. border but when they arrive, they change into a clean set of clothes and leave everything else behind because there is not enough room in the packed vehicles used to transport them.

This eRumor began circulating in 2007 and went viral again in the Spring of 2010, after organized protests and boycotts to an Arizona Immigration Bill. The photos are being passed on by supporters as one of the many reasons why they justify the Grand Canyon State’s tough new law.”

Of course it was either last year or the year before that the Border Patrol itself said that the flow of illegal immigrants had really slowed.