[RP TownTalk] Street sweeping

Fri Sep 4 19:42:16 UTC 2009

Lisa

It's in our Town and we can enforce our ordinances in our Town.  What would the Riverdale police do if someone was murdered in the park?  Call the Park Police and let the suspect get away?  The same goes for trash.

Not enough trash cans in the parks is no excuse.  If you don't have enough trash cans at home, do you throw your trash in the front yard or bag it? 

In my mind, there's simply no excuse for this totally utterly uacceptable behavior.

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
>From: Lisa Grob <lisagrob at verizon.net>
>Sent: Sep 4, 2009 3:03 PM
>To: 'Dwight Holmes' <dwightrholmes at gmail.com>, 'TownTalk' <towntalk at riverdale-park.org>
>Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Street sweeping
>
>I think the litter in the park is a separate issue that might be worth
>talking to park police about. I am sure it's "fineable" and a little
>enforcement might go a long way. Although there are also aren't enough trash
>cans down there to contain the massive quantity of debris generated by
>several baseball and soccer fields, many picnicers etc.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: towntalk-bounces at riverdale-park.org
>[mailto:towntalk-bounces at riverdale-park.org] On Behalf Of Dwight Holmes
>Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:19 PM
>To: TownTalk
>Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Street sweeping
>
>Bruce, I'm sure the methodology could be improved and your suggestion
>might give different results than what they got. One distinction that
>should be made though, I think, is personal/citizen "litter" vs
>industrial/community "pollution."
>
>(BTW, If anyone didn't see the recent Anacostia Watershed Society
>posting to YouTube, this is evidence of some great work they're doing:
>video footage of some really, really ugly, presumably industrial
>pollution being dumped into a nearby tributary of the Anacostia:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM5F4mOf9YE )
>
>While some of our beaches may be untidy due to littering, the bacteria
>that causes some of them to be closed is, I assume,
>industrial/commercial/public in nature.  Obviously both are important
>for maintaining our communities as both healthy and beautiful, but
>strategies for dealing with them would be at least largely different,
>I would think.
>
>As far as finding evidence of litter or pollution in Riverdale's parks
>and streams, I think this supports (or at least doesn't refute) my
>point:  You are much more apt to find both litter and pollution in
>less affluent communities.  The nexus of (relative) poverty and
>(relative) powerlessness going hand in hand with less desirable living
>conditions is nothing new in the annals of human history.
>
>Please understand I'm not making or trying to make a case here for
>fatalism or inaction.  Not at all. I was just sharing the findings of
>one research effort which found that, contrary to some public
>perceptions, overall our litter problem has continued to decline in
>the U.S.  I'm inclined to think they're probably right,  granted that
>as with all research, what you actually measure will have much to do
>with the results you get.
>
>More to the point, though, even if those researchers are correct, that
>would in no way indicate that our litter problem here in Riverdale
>Park isn't getting worse. I suspect that it is. The important thing is
>that we seem to have a shared recognition that we have a problem here,
>and that we'd like to do something about it.
>
>On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:54 PM, <bruce.wernek at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> Dwight
>>
>> Two points
>>
>> 1)  These folks are measuring litter along streets or in metropolitan
>areas.  Water washes litter into the creeks and rivers.  If they really want
>to assess litter, this is were they should be looking.
>>
>> 2)  If our beaches are so clean, why are they routinely closed during the
>summer because the bacteria level in the water makes it unsafe for swimming.
>>
>> Don't take my word for it.  Check out either of our parks (in Riverdale)
>early on a Monday morning in the summer.  This is what I'm talking about.
>>
>> Bruce
>>
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