![]() “The Bantam Classic, a race put on by Yuri, will come right through here in a couple of months.” “These are our cherished back roads,” Bigattini said after removing the rusty freezer near the corner of Spring Hill and Guglielmetti roads. On Sunday, a team of five adults and four teens returned to the litter sites found a day earlier, ready to haul away trash that is not only an eyesore but can injure cyclists riding at high speeds. There’s everything from Coors Light cans to engine blocks and refrigerators.” “Some of the stuff is unsafe out there, with the dumping of liquor bottles and motor oil. “It’s frightening what people are dumping,” said Hauswald, who grew up on a farm in the Chileno Valley southwest of Petaluma. “Typically, public works is not liable for that trash, because it’s not a roadside hazard.”īigattini invited endurance racer Yuri Hauswald, who participated in the first Tour de Trash, to lead Saturday’s leisurely bike ride along some of rural Petaluma’s most scenic byways. “A lot of the trash is off the beaten path, so you have to look down in the ditches,” Bigattini said. The county public works department also disposes of the junk after the volunteers drop it off at a site on Airport Boulevard in Santa Rosa. The informal effort is supported by the Sonoma County roads department, which supplies safety vests, garbage bags and barricades. “It smells like something died in there,” said Ario Bigattini of Petaluma, who founded the all-volunteer ABC Rides “Tour de Trash” in 2005 with a bunch of his cycling buddies. Sunday’s most disgusting discovery was a rusty old freezer with a foul odor emanating from the rotten food left inside. The cyclists made note of the trash they found Saturday, then returned Sunday with pickup trucks and gloves to get rid of the mess. We will contact people on the waitlist by phone if and when spaces open up.After a five-year hiatus, a group of avid bicyclists returned to the back roads of Petaluma this past weekend to find and remove old TVs, tires, moldy mattresses, couches and other unwanted items dumped by the side of the road. Space is limited to 20 attendees once the event has filled, please choose the waitlist option. Register today and you’ll receive addresses for the tour and meeting location before the event date. Then, come with all of your questions and curiosity as we learn together. Please review our Graywater resources and Graywater Action’s webpage to get an overview of laundry-to-landscape systems ahead of this tour. ![]() The event will be led as a walking tour, but attendees are more than welcome to drive, bike, or otherwise roll as needed! We will be meeting at Petaluma City Hall and will be traveling less than a mile total. ![]() We’ll talk with homeowners about their experience installing a graywater system, lessons learned, and tour gardens that were designed to utilize the recycled water. This walking tour will educate participants about sheet mulching, drip irrigation, plants, bioswales, Laundry-to-Landscape graywater systems, and the rebate programs that can help support you in implementing these solutions in your own home. This will be an opportunity to see a graywater system’s indoor and outdoor components. ![]() Join us on our Graywater Tour to visit Petaluma homes that incorporate graywater into their landscapes. Interested in learning about how you can conserve water in your own home? The graywater from washing machines, showers, and bathroom sinks could be used to irrigate your landscape! Recycling water through low cost, do-it-yourself solutions, is a great way to help fight our drought and the current climate crisis. Meeting at Petaluma City Hall, 11 English Street, Petaluma CA 94952
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