[Chat] Dixon's Deep Clean program a bust

Mariann Millard qbdmar at cavtel.net
Sun Jun 24 11:31:07 EDT 2007


I hope you will follow up with Mayor Dixon personally to
report...
Mariann

> About a week ago, we on the 2600 block of Guilford Ave and
> others nearby got a bright yellow notice on our door
> announcing an upcoming "Deep Clean" of our block.  I don't
> know her definition of a "deep clean," but not much
> happened; in fact our alley is far worse off then when
> they started!    
> 
> The notice encouraged us to clean out our back yards and
> place bags and bulk trash in our regular trash pick-up
> spot no later than noon on Saturday, June 23.  I eagerly
> assembled a pile of bulk trash hauled up from our basement
> during a few hours late Friday night.  Then, I waited for
> the "Deep Clean" on Saturday.  In the meantime, as
> anticipated, garbage pickers sorted through the bulk items
> , hauling away metal, etc., and generally spreading out
> our neat little pile, as they did to other piles in the
> alley.  
> 
> So, at 1:30 on Saturday, the first and only tuck "with
> city crews and volunteers" arrived in our alley.  They
> picked up our neighbors pile, told me their truck was
> "full up" and they would be back.  They all took a 10
> minute smoke break, and drove off, never coming back, of
> course.  So, the remaining piles are now strewn all over
> the alley by kids having fun breaking glass, etc.  The
> alley is impassable, and worse off than before this "deep
> clean" that amounted to nothing more than a single trash
> truck.  
> 
> I guess I had defined a "deep clean" as one beginning with
> the bulk trash being taken away, and continuing with crews
> arriving with street sweepers, brooms, power washers, etc
> for the block.  If the mayor thinks a "deep clean" is a
> single trash truck onsite for 10 minutes, then her own
> house must be a mess.  I wonder what her alley and street
> looks like today?               
> 
> Paul K. Williams
> Kelsey & Associates, Inc.
> 2629 Guilford Avenue
> Baltimore, MD 21218
> BaltimoreMarylandHistory.com
> 
> 1929 13th Street, NW
> Washington, DC 20009
> (202) 213-9796
> WashingtonHistory.com
> 
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