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Volunteer group tells Mason County commissioners encampments and mobile methadone van are harming water, safety and services
Summary
A volunteer coalition presented photos and data to Mason County commissioners, saying hillside encampments and an ETS mobile treatment van have grown dramatically and strained EMS, created public-health hazards (2,500 needles collected) and damaged shorelines; they urged enforcement and structured sheltering.
Bill Hyatt, a member of a volunteer coalition that said it started as the Mesa County Cleanup Crew and later became ‘No More,’ told Mason County commissioners that volunteers had removed “over 80,000 pounds” of trash from hillside encampments and brought photographs showing camps, shopping carts and damaged banks that drain into Oakland Bay.
Hyatt and other presenters said the sites have open drug use, human waste that runs into shellfish-growing waters, and thousands of discarded syringes. “We picked up over 2,500 needles,” one presenter said, and the group said those needles and open latrines pose measurable risks to parks, waterfront and the shellfish industry — which the presenters described as a leading local employer.
The group also criticized an ETS mobile methadone clinic…
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