$15M project will remove homeless from Las Vegas wash
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Work to remove the homeless from the Las Vegas wash begins early Tuesday morning.
'I wanted to hold this meeting because starting Tuesday morning, we are doing major reconstruction on the Flamingo wash,' Commissioner Tick Segerblom said during a Monday night town hall meeting to address homeless encampments.
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The $15 million Regional Flood Control project will include construction from Maryland Parkway to Cambridge Street and improvements to the Tropicana and Flamingo washes. Debris and rocks will be cleared from the flood channels. In addition, people living in those channels will also be removed.
'How are we supposed to sleep in fear that we will be pushed out. We can just be sitting on a sidewalk, minding our own business, and then all of a sudden we are forced to move,' Joyce Foster said. She's been homeless for seven years.
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The homeless who live in the washes and tunnels have become a source of frustration and complaints for residents who live near the channels.
'Flamingo Wash will be constructed with a Venetian red-colored concrete channel, maintenance roads and access ramps, fencing, lateral storm drain connections, among other improvements,' Segerblom said.
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The fencing that will surround the washes is designed to keep people from accessing the tunnels, which can become flooded and dangerous during rainy weather.
The work will begin at Flamingo and Cambridge roads, with police and firefighters beginning to clear the tunnels starting around 5 a.m. HELP of Southern Nevada will also have teams at the site to help the homeless who are moved out.
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