Deteriorating sanitation in our alley during August and Sept

Here is a photo round up of just some of the dumping and trash issues we've faced in the last month and a half.  It's amazing to me that I hear neighbors on other blocks say that they get tickets for improperly stored trash because someone put it behind their house and it wasn't theirs---but we can't get any response from DPW inspectors to crack down and prevent this.  

September 22, 2012 

Sept 19th, 2012

Dumped chair on September 3, 2012 on other side of vacant lot.  Reported to DPW

Construction debris that was dumped by a contractor passing through our alley on Sept 5th.  I got photos of his tag and reported it to Inspector Chavis at DPW and through the 311.

This is the kind of filth the Park View Beautification Crew routinely cleans up--mainly due to uncontained trash that rats and cats rip open.  This was from August 11,

See how trash bags are left behind for rats to get into?  Then the lose trash from open bags is scattered all over during every trash collection.  It should not be this way.  We are happy to clean our alley but we need DPW's help in preventing this kind of situation every trash collection day.

This is how much loose trash we have- (two or three piles)--this was one afternoon of sweeping on Sept 13th  in just this section of our alley.  We need DPW to work with us to help prevent uncontained trash!

More dumping, August 2, 2012







More loose trash, Aug 23rd.  Corn, anyone?

This is typical of what we pick up our alley at least a couple of times a week.  So gross.

This is what we find at least once a week and it perpetuates an unsafe cycle.  Someone throws this stuff in a can without a bag, the sanitation workers will not collect it, it gets knocked over by whomever or rats, and then the rats spread it everywhere and feast.


The grass in the vacant lot hasn't been mowed in months.  The mosquitos and rats love the long grass.  We asked for enforcement from DPW.

  

From clean up on Aug 27th.  The Park View Beautification Crew members cleaned this---a big thanks to Dianne Chambers, Anthony Cimino, Jean Paul George, and Zach Baldwin for dealing with this