Water district delays vote on law to remove homeless encampments from creeks in San Jose, Santa Clara County
Unable to come to an agreement over what do to about widespread pollution and threats to their employees while still treating homeless people fairly, the board of Silicon Valley’s largest water agency on Tuesday delayed a vote on a new ordinance to ban camping along 295 miles of creeks in San Jose and other parts of Santa Clara County. … The district, a government agency based in San Jose, has spent $3.4 million since July removing 15,050 cubic yards of debris — enough to fill 1,500 dump trucks — from Coyote Creek, Guadalupe River, Los Gatos Creek and other South Bay waterways.