If I ever catch the person who…
This picture was taken at the corner of Foundry and Boston streets. As you can see someone dumped all of their garbage and junk on a city street. I think that parcel is owned by the City but I am not sure. Anyway, that is how I read the GIS map on the city website.
For a long time there was a drop-off box for used clothing. One of those large, yellow metal containers. The operative word here is clothes. But every month, when it was moving time, landlords and tenants would use this spot as their personal garbage dumpster.
I thought that now that the container had been removed, the corner would be free of this visual pollution. But I was wrong, as you can see. How long have the abutting residents, who put so much time and effort to keep their properties clean, have to put up with this garbage, (literally and figuratively)?
The cowardly deed is done a night making it almost impossible for the criminals to be caught. Maybe the City can put a camera up there and finally catch one of those criminals. It not only effects the neighborhoods quality of life but the impact of indiscriminate dumping of garbage is a form of the broken window theory; maintaining a clean environment is essential to safe and healthy community.
Meanwhile, I will be on the lookout and if I ever catch one of those guys, watch out!
UPDATE: The garbage has been removed. Thank-you Ms. Kendra Amaral, of the City’s
Development Services Division, and DPW. I am still on the look out for that criminal who is polluting our City.
