You Ask, Patch Answers: Trash on the Highways and Byways

If you have a question about something in Santee that you think Patch could help answer, post your question as a comment or send to Steven.Bartholow@patch.com.

Question:

"I stumbled upon your web site while trying to find a way to clean up Santee.  Everyday while waiting to merg onto the 52 I see all kinds of trash!!!

I would like to find out how to go about “cleaning” this up?  I don’t suppose you can just go onto the freeway and start cleaning up trash without some sort of permission or permit of sorts? 

Please advise to how My family and I can go about cleaning up our city."

Answer:

" and have arranged through CALTRANS to adopt the . Once that arrangement has been finalized we will be seeking volunteers to help cleanup efforts. Trash pick up along highways can be very dangerous and should only be performed when all of the CALTRANS safety precautions are in place."

- , Santee's Director of Community Services

Santee Patch will spread the word when these cleanup efforts become available to the public.

If you don't want to wait for that, or have another stretch of highway in mind for cleaning, you can contact the general line for the CalTrans Adopt-A-Highway program at (619) 688-3367 or directly contact the local Adopt-A-Highway coordinator, Jose Estrada, at (619) 688-3327 or jose_estrada@dot.ca.gov, to get involved with cleanup groups that already exist, or create your own.

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