Guadalupe Canyon: Garbage Dam

As your drive up to Guadalupe, through the blandly suburban streets of far south San Jose you first see a towering earthen dam with little pipes sticking up out of it here and there. On the day I visited, I spied a white speck moving diagonally across its face, which—like the ruler placed, for scale, next to the trilobite in a scientific photograph—turned out to be an oversized pickup truck.

Behind the dam, imagine a gigantic reservoir of trash. And under that, presumably, the erstwhile canyon.

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