Local jurisdictions maintain it using sales tax money at a cost of $7.9 million last fiscal year.Įven small amounts of rain make the tunnels dangerous. What started as a piecemeal set of individual drains is now part of a 500-mile maze of pipes, washes, basins and open channels, said Betty Hollister, spokeswoman for the Clark County Regional Flood Control District that built the system. Penksa frequents the tunnels for HELP of Southern Nevada, which is working to place tunnel residents into more conventional homes. "I don't think I've ever felt odder than when I'm down in that tunnel environment," said Penksa, who once encountered thousands of spiders feasting on the baby mosquitoes multiplying in standing water. Rich Penksa, a retired correctional sergeant who began traversing the tunnels earlier this year for a nonprofit's homeless outreach, said he first heard about the tunnels years ago from prison inmates who told tales of living under Sin City when not behind bars. "Right now I'm just trying to survive," Cobble said. Cobble, battling severe drug addiction while living near a mound of washed up garbage, said his only belongings are a small mound of blankets and his clothes.
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