The Adopt a Highway Program offers several benefits to the Pasco community. It provides a clean environment, gives civic pride to the community, serves as a reminder not to litter, and saves taxpayer's money.
Litter is not only unattractive; it can be a traffic hazard if it blows into the view of drivers on the highway. Litter is also harmful to the environment. Did you know it takes over one million years for plastic and Styrofoam containers to decompose?
Become an Adopt-A-Highway program sponsor it is an effective way to reduce litter and the overall cost of litter removal in the Pasco community. The City of Pasco depends on corporate sponsors for partial funding of the program.
Sponsors adopt a portion of the highway, and the City makes arrangements in collaboration with the Coyote Ridge Correction Center and the Washington State Department of Transportation (DOT) for a work crew to be assigned to the area. Non-violent prisoners from Coyote Ridge, under close supervision of Coyote Ridge personnel work two days a week picking up litter from six different sections of Highway on I-182 and US 395.
Sponsorship signs and Adopt-A-Highway signs are posted at either end of the Highway sections to inform passersby who is sponsoring litter pickup at each section of the highway (the map shows available sponsorship areas).
