At 08:59 PM 11/13/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Same song, same dance over here in Seward. Remember though, we did have
>a late fall and several trees on our boulevard STILL haven't dropped
>their leaves. A few years back, if I remember correctly, street
>sweeping wasn't finished in the fall either. They just started wherever
>they left off the next spring.
I've got young Oak trees on my boulevard that don't get a lot of sun. They
always seem to hang on to half their leaves till January. They then blend
with the ice and make a stronger, messier material than mere ice.
Still, it's nice to get most of the stuff removed, even if we have to steer
around the monster compost piles left at intersections for a few days.
I'm sure everyone here knows that we need to avoid leaving leaves in the
street, because the excess nutrients in the runoff spawn algae blooms in
our lakes and rivers. But how do you tactfully mention this fact to
neighbors? It seems like every block has a few households that deliberately
rake their leaves into the street, with no indication of when (if ever)
the city will come a street-sweepin. I don't want to approach neighbors
I don't know well and sound like I'm condemning them for being lazy and
polluting our water. (Most of them just don't know they shouldn't.)
Perhaps the city could make little door-hanging reminder cards about the
city's leaf policy, and let concerned residents distribute them?
Perhaps I should get to know my neighbors better. Yes, I think that
sounds likely.
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