What Is Town Doing to Combat Lake Hiawatha Trash Dumping?
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Scene from 88 N. Beverwyck Road on March 5—after garbage was picked up by town crews
Nick Homyak
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The pictures here show a chronic situation that exists at 88 N. Beverwyck Road. On Monday, the township's sanitation department "emptied" municipal trash containers. At about 10 a.m. Tuesday, this scene appeared—and this is the norm.
This site is just one of several chronic dumping spots. Many times the culprits can be identified by the trash they leave. This spot has white plastic bags filled with hair.
No actual litter abatement is performed. For example, there is nothing done in terms of cleaning gutters and sewers to prevent or curtail runoff pollution from entering our river-sensitive area.
Imagine what more "uneconomic" development will bring to the area like Waterview rezoning!
Of course Parsippany is not alone; our whole lack of culture is reflected in the obvious loss of land ethic that has triumphed over any common good or environmental awareness. Waste produced and not retrieved by our system of convenient consumption products has overwhelmed our landscapes. Our continued lack of caring toward what has happened shows just how bad it is.
The issues of litter and trash dumping must be addressed. Without corporate social responsibility or extended producer responsibility—especially to combat plastic—the gift (or curse) that keeps on giving—we will remain forever surrounded by trash and litter.
Nicholas Homyak
Lake Hiawatha
Louis Yuliano
2:37 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The tradegy of the commons. Well I have a pretty easy and simple solution. That guy with the white hair who drives a black jeep liberty around aka trash cop. He can do an undercover mission and find out where it's coming from because I really don't think he does anything else all day. Even if he did find who's doing it he would have to get a cop to write the ticket because he doesn't have the power to. But we don't have enough cops on the streets to help him out. Sounds like mis managed resources. Maybe if that guy could write tickets he could prevent people from puttin out garbage in municipal cans. I think he has the best job in town you see him drive up to random houses and shake the can write a little note on his clip board and call it a day!
Alan C
8:37 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The answer to this story's headline is "nothing" because we have a mayor who is doing nothing for his Lake Hiawatha neighborhood and township as a whole.
Sick of the Bull
12:48 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
How about just putting up a video camera temporarily. Simple cost effective solution to a simple problem. Will someone from the town hire me so I can fix some of these simple problems......I would love to be the town watchdog. I know lots of secrets....
Richard
2:18 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
The parks and rec dept. empty the black litter barrels on N Beverwyck Rd. Later, the sanitation dept. comes by and picks up the residential and business trash. I've seen parks & rec people take what would appear to be household trash out of the black litter barrels and place in on the brick pavers sidewalk and drive away. Why not have just one dept. (sanitation would make sense) responsible for trash removal rather than the cat and mouse game that is played with 2 different departments and 2 different trucks? What difference does it make where it came from - the town offers the service of trash removal - remove the d___ stuff!
Also, parking is not permitted on N Beverwyck early Friday mornings so that the street sweeper can clean along the curb without cars in the way. When was the last time you saw a street sweeper? Debris is linig the street along the curb. Sidewalks are broken and raised by tree roots, litter, debris, weeds growing around town trees and where the sidewalk meets a building's wall, overflowing recyling barrels, cars parked all day long even though signs indicate a 2 hour limit (that one is never enforced either) - and then we wonder why people go to Broadway in Denville to shop !?! Dah
Louis Yuliano
11:21 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Richard for some reason the Parks Dept is responsible for the recycling cans on Bev and the road department actually pics up the trash....did it for 5 years. Don't know why it should be picked up by one department and the reason you haven't seen a street sweeper is because they are winterized since October.
Louis Yuliano
11:22 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Trash Cop's Job...Pay him to do something productive....ANYTHING!
greg pavlic
1:21 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
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want you to come see me in person ....tell me face to face....the trash cop.
Par Troy Voice
3:12 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
I agree with Mr. Yuliano, I always see this man driving the black SUV with white hair napping at the Smith Field park...... Must be nice having a responsiblility to monitor the sanitation department and do nothing but collect a pay check at the tax payers expense at the end of the week. Such a shame!
modern day viking
8:35 am on Friday, March 15, 2013
Listen here this guy is not the one you should get mad at he wants to write tickets but the town doesn't let him he can be given the power to do so just by taking a course but the town won't send him the town is the one to blame they only created this title because of a state program so they could probably get a tax write-off. BLAME THE TOWN!!!!!