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Circle the City has five street medicine teams who provide care to unsheltered individuals in riverbeds, canals, alleys, and other community spaces.
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Maritza Dominguez, AZCentral.com, 18 Jan. 2026
Last year, volunteers removed 221,330 pounds of trash from the riverbed between Santee and the ocean, including 3,700 pounds during the kayak cleanup alone.
—Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2026
The defining feature of this region, however, is the Mwagusi Sand River, a seasonally dry riverbed that snakes through the park.
—Nicholas Derenzo, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2026
Getting to his wetland requires jumping railroad tracks and scaling down the steep side of the channel to the riverbed.
—Emma Bowman, NPR, 17 Nov. 2025
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Maritza Dominguez, AZCentral.com, 18 Jan. 2026
Last year, volunteers removed 221,330 pounds of trash from the riverbed between Santee and the ocean, including 3,700 pounds during the kayak cleanup alone.
—Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2026
The defining feature of this region, however, is the Mwagusi Sand River, a seasonally dry riverbed that snakes through the park.
—Nicholas Derenzo, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2026
Getting to his wetland requires jumping railroad tracks and scaling down the steep side of the channel to the riverbed.
—Emma Bowman, NPR, 17 Nov. 2025
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“Riverbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riverbed. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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riverbed
noun
riv·er·bed
-ˌbed 
: the channel occupied or once occupied by a river
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