Five project sites across the Valley — where SRP irrigation canals and engineered flood-control channels run as paved multi-use corridors directly behind big-box retail and strip centers. Phoenix cleanups are viable October through April only, making the Valley a natural winter complement to our summer operations elsewhere.
Fund a Phoenix Project See the Sites ↓Phoenix's century-old SRP irrigation canals and engineered flood-control channels double as urban waterways because no natural creeks flow through the metro. That infrastructure produces dozens of paved paths running directly behind commercial retail with clear jurisdictional ambiguity.
Each site pairs a paved canal or wash trail with a commercial cluster where SRP, Flood Control District, city agencies, and private retail each stop at their boundary. Click any card for full details.
Phoenix's flagship EJ community. Grand Canalscape Phase 3 delivered paved infrastructure in March 2025 but no ongoing maintenance crew. Walmart, El Super, Dollar Tree, and fast-food clusters at Indian School & 51st Ave drive ambient litter. SRP owns the canal, the city owns the crossings, retailers own the lots — the canal bank is no-man's land.
Textbook big-box geometry. Paved wash trail sits directly behind Walmart Supercenter, Castles N' Coasters, Harkins Theatre, and the Metro Parkway strip. Multiple 2022 news stories documented feces, trash, and drug paraphernalia. The $850M Metropolitan redevelopment creates an unusually strong developer-sponsor opportunity.
Phoenix Magazine documented a long-standing encampment operator with "about 15 shopping carts" on SRP's access path because "nobody bothers" to remove them — the textbook jurisdictional gap. TrailLink reviews name this exact location. Highest repeatability score in the portfolio: shopping-cart accumulation is continuous.
The 11-mile paved Greenbelt runs directly behind McDowell Rd retail (Home Depot, Walmart) within a half-mile of Pavilions at Talking Stick. Unique sponsor angle: NIBW Superfund PRPs (Motorola Solutions, GSK, Siemens) have $100M+ in remediation spending in this exact geography. Thunderbirds Charities (WM Phoenix Open) is the marquee fit.
City of Peoria and American Rivers have already institutionalized cleanup demand here. American Rivers documents "a lot of illegal camps and dumping." The P83 Entertainment District (spring training, 30+ restaurants, Harkins 14) drives ambient litter. City supplies vests, pickers, and bags. Easiest institutional partnership in the portfolio.
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If you're a local business, waterway organization, or community group that wants to help bring one of these projects to life — as a sponsor, partner, or crew participant — we'd love to connect.
Get in Touch →A typical canal cleanup costs $500–$750 — covering crew wages, equipment, coordination, and documentation. Your donation funds community improvement projects across Phoenix's canal and wash corridors where century-old infrastructure creates jurisdictional orphan zones behind every commercial cluster in the Valley.