Clear the trash from the Rio Puerco banks through downtown Gallup.

The Rio Puerco channel through Gallup collects windblown trash, dumped tires, and bottles that every storm carries downstream. A monthly bank cleanup along the public in-town stretch keeps the channel cleaner and shows the river some respect in a town that grew up alongside it.

Where

Public bank stretch of Rio Puerco near S 2nd St crossing, Gallup, NM 87301 · Open the map

Pay

$160 proposed

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Proof

Before/after photos + bag/bulk count

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-19

Posted by

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Walk the public-access bank stretch and collect litter into bags, sorting recyclables.
2. Stack tires and bulky items at the agreed city pickup point.
3. Keep to the upper bank: stay out of the channel and off steep cut banks.
4. Log bag count and bulky items.
5. Photograph the cleaned stretch before and after with date and GPS.

What counts as done

• Before and after photos of the stretch
• Photo of bagged and staged debris
• Count log with date and GPS

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Watershed Health. A watershed is everything the land pours into a stream, and the stream keeps the record. The EPA's bioassessment method reads that record through the small creatures living in the gravel: mayflies and caddisflies mean clean water, only worms and midges mean trouble. Mastery looks like a person who can wade one riffle with a net and tell you how the whole valley is doing. That skill is built sample by sample. This packet is one of them: one site, one careful count, one entry in the long record of a stream.