Volunteer crews with the River City Waterway Alliance say they have pulled more than 24,000 hypodermic needles from creeks and rivers across the Sacramento region, part of ongoing cleanups that have also turned up shopping carts, mattresses and thousands of pounds of other trash. The sheer volume has neighbors and conservation groups rattled, since the syringes pose public health risks and beat up already fragile river habitat. As reported by AB…
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