Forest service contact for graffiti removal in Eaton Canyon
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 9:05 am
Last summer the CAC and I organized a clean-up of Eaton Canyon, which is a canyon in the San Gabriels near Pasadena. It's the first canyoneering experience for many an LA-based adventurer, and it's really kind of mind-blowing (at least to a native Angeleno like yours truly) that there could be such a cool natural gem basically in the city. There's a little TR here for a rundown of how it went last year.
The canyon is still pretty dirty despite the participation of fifty people for trash and graffiti removal. We want to scale up the operation this year to remove more trash and more importantly to remove more graffiti. Last year we used a graffiti removal chemical and scrubs (carefully to avoid contaminating the stream), but it takes too much manpower to make a dent in the graffiti that way. We're considering painting over it with stone-colored paint this year, but before doing that we'd obviously want to coordinate with the forest service and see if they have a paint they'd want to supply or have us use.
If you know anyone in the forest service who I can contact about this project, which would happen in early fall, please let me know who to call or email. Thanks!
The canyon is still pretty dirty despite the participation of fifty people for trash and graffiti removal. We want to scale up the operation this year to remove more trash and more importantly to remove more graffiti. Last year we used a graffiti removal chemical and scrubs (carefully to avoid contaminating the stream), but it takes too much manpower to make a dent in the graffiti that way. We're considering painting over it with stone-colored paint this year, but before doing that we'd obviously want to coordinate with the forest service and see if they have a paint they'd want to supply or have us use.
If you know anyone in the forest service who I can contact about this project, which would happen in early fall, please let me know who to call or email. Thanks!
. If you know people who canyoneer Eaton a lot please let them know about the clean-up so we can get rid of a lot of the graffiti. See ya soon!