21 Jan
2012
21 Jan
'12
1:37 p.m.
Hey Emrys,
Good points and I totally agree.
Trash from the students has been a bone of contention for some time. I do
remember that there was a clean-up partnership effort with the school and I
believe the East CAC (someone correct me if I'm wrong - it may have been a
City thing or Clean Water Day or something like that). That was a year or
so ago. But this is a continuing problem - each summer we see the stream
and surrounding areas relatively clean, then when school cranks up it's as
if the students had never heard of using trash cans before.
Granted, there aren't many. I had raised this point a few months ago at a
CAC meeting and was going to get in touch with the CAC that contains the
area around St. Aug. They have a TON of trash cans around there and I'm
sure they'd be willing to give info on how they came about them (CAC funds?
City? College? Partnership?). But alas, something got in my way. I can't
remember what it was, but it could have had to do with a couch, bed, comfy
chair, internet or dogs... or laziness! But I'm on it now! After this rain
it's just disgusting and sad to see all that trash in the stream. Most of
the time I don't think the students throw it directly in the stream (I hope
they don't), but they leave it on the road and it blows or washes there. Of
course, there was that one time that someone picked up the entire trash can
that's on the stream side of the road near the Bertie/Culpepper
intersection and tossed the entire can and its contents into the stream.
Good grief... But I digress, I volunteer to find out how the St. Aug
neighborhood came across their pretty trash receptacles (they are pretty!)
with nice signage to go along.
Let's do keep this conversation going until we find a resolution. Education
and action will surely help!
Ginger
Stevens Rd.
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Emrys Treasure <emrys.treasure(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi All,
As I was walking the dogs along Bertie Dr today, I couldn't help but
notice the large volume of trash in the Longview Branch stream channel and
buffer. In addition, there are only two trash cans between Chatham Ln and
Locke Ln. The nature of the trash also clearly indicates the source (Enloe
students discarding mainly styrofoam food containers after lunch).
I know this issue has been raised before at CAC meetings, but perhaps we
can take this opportunity to harness our emerging community watch and
establish a early success story.
Couple of key points and actions that I submit for discussion by this
group:
1.The Enloe National Honor Society (NHS) holds the adoption rights to
Longview Branch. When I was in high school, our NHS was always looking for
community service opportunities and we often had funds at our disposal to
conduct them (relevant to item #2). Perhaps we can partner with the Enloe
NHS to conduct a spring cleanup.
Proposed actions: (1) contact Enloe and the City of Raleigh Adopt-A-Stream
program and determine when the last cleanup was conducted; (2) scope out
what resources the City might be willing to contribute to help (especially
with respect to item #2).
2. Item #1 is somewhat pointless unless we are also willing to address the
source of the trash and give the students a reasonable alternative to
tossing their trash in the stream.
Proposed actions: (1) engage Enloe to educate their students on water
quality issue (perhaps there is an Enloe environmental club or student
government body that would take this on); (2) establish a density of trash
cans along Bertie Dr that makes throwing trash in a trash can easier than
throwing it in Longview Branch.
I welcome and encourage your thoughts and suggestions.
--
Emrys Treasure
East CAC Co-chair
Longview Park Resident
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and
the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money.
~ 19th century Cree saying
Hasta que el último árbol sea cortado, hasta que el último río sea
contaminado, hasta que el último pescado sea atrapado; solo entonces nos
daremos cuenta que el dinero no se puede comer.
~ profecia Indios Cree