Hidden underground bunker, tunnel with 1,000 bikes found in homeless encampment

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[BenLurkin]

The county plans to permanently close the west side of the flood-control channel between 17th Street in Santa Ana and Adams Avenue in Huntington Beach as it prepares to start maintenance of Orange County Flood Control District property along the trail, officials have said. Before maintenance begins, Orange County Public Works officials have been tasked with cleaning debris and trash from the former encampment in Fountain Valley. Puckett said officials found a .357 magnum containing three empty shell casings — indicating to authorities that it had been fired — near the camp. The Sheriff’s Department is investigating where the gun came from. The trail was deserted Friday afternoon. Orange bags filled with trash were lined up waiting to be hauled away.

Nearby residents said most of the homeless people who had set up camp there packed up and left within three days of the county’s enforcement effort.

Gillan said the area is quiet and getting cleaner every day.

County officials hope to keep it that way. The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to pay California Panther Security $450,000 annually over the next two years to have unarmed security guards open and close gates along the trail and report trespassers to the Sheriff’s Department, according to a county staff report.

[Excellence]

There’s an epidemic of hepatitis a in San Diego amongst the homeless. It’s spreading because instead of housing these people in even the most modest yet sanitary way (micro or even nano housing) they just chase them from location to location.