This comes as residents and business owners in East Gardena are calling a growing RV encampment a health and environmental nightmare: 'You can't make money when you're in the middle of this kind of toilet.'
Isela Grecian, Senior Deputy on Housing and Homelessness for L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell's office, said their team has started a soft launch of an RV Pilot program back in March designed to find housing for the people living in the RVs, remove the mobile homes and disassemble them so they don't pop up somewhere else."We hear them loud and clear," Grecian told Eyewitness News.
"We have approximately 9,000 gallons a month of human waste flowing to the ocean out of these RVs," said local business owner Barry Coe. "It's an environmental disaster and it needs to be cleaned up now." The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said 27 RVs have already been removed over the past few weeks, but doing so is rife with obstacles that slow the process down.
"The tow companies that we were working with didn't have room in their yard and weren't equipped to deal with the hazardous waste," said LASD Lt. William Kitchen. Tuesday morning, county crews were cleaning up some of the garbage, but because of the sheer number of RVs, business owners think it will come right back.
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