Likwood, Colorado (KDVR) – People who live near 6th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard Street in Likwood are pressing to clean the growing homeland camp.
They say they are dealing with the problem for years.
“I have been living in this neighborhood for more than 35 years,” said Brett Sharpono.
At that time, Sharpono witnessed many changes.
“The one that is happening now is not good,” he said.
He talks about the camp of the homeless, which is located near his neighborhood.
“They are putting this drug here, it was not here two weeks ago,” he said. “You can see that they moved and grow every day.”
He says more and more tents have been monitored. Some are placed near the trees where he says fires have started.
“They put fires in the trees, and if it starts, the houses will decrease,” he said. “I don’t know what it will be. Someone’s house is burning or multiple homes.”
Early on Wednesday afternoon, the Fox31 crew witnessed homeless people with officers with the Likudod police community team trying to connect those who live in the camp with resources.
“Cracks have appeared in the backyards of our neighbors that excite fate because this is dangerous,” said Sharono. “The amount of garbage that was created from these homeless camps – it is clear that it is anxious. There is a waterway agreed in the Platt River, so that you know that they use it as a bath and who knows what.”
Brett Sharpono took this picture of a needle under the skin near a camp close to his home. (With the permission of Brett Sharpono) 
Camps near 6th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard have been visited by homeless navigators with officers with the community work team in the Likwood Police Department on Wednesday. (Kdvr) Camps near 6th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard have been visited by homeless navigators with officers with the community work team in the Likwood Police Department on Wednesday. (Kdvr)
He says he is together with many neighbors, may contact the city officials about the problem.
“I got their contract, perhaps 10 times,” he said.
A spokesman for the city of Likwood sent a statement he partially read:
“The city has received many complaints on this issue, and both the homeless awareness team and the Likwood police department have contacted the Ministry of Transport in Colorado about this issue because the camp is on state property. Given, any application or cleaning ultimately depends on the state.”
“No one wants to deal with him,” said Sharono.
CDOT sent a statement saying that the administration “is working regularly with the community work team in Likwood to address the homeless camps. We are working to solve the situation.”
Charbonneau hopes that the situation will be resolved sooner, not later.
“The more they are allowed to continue, the more people appear,” he said. “I understand that displacement is a problem. I have no bad will towards them but only the garbage they generate and use the needle and go to the bathroom in this river is not good.”
As of now, there is no timetable for the area of cleansing the area.