An open letter to White Rock council.
Do you not think that by bringing the green kitchen, garden waste – which is dumped on the ground to sit and rot for days at a time – and recycling to within the city limits at the public works yard in White Rock attract more rats than ever?
Also, it attracts the crows and seagulls, which squawk and drop their bird droppings all over our yards, cars, increasing our health risk with diseases.
Then we have to put up with the noise of the bins being dropped, dragged and the backhoe operator scraping the pavement to load up the rotting garden waste in the bins stirring up more airborne particulars of who knows what.
Along with this noise, there is stress having to listen to this day after day. Comments from the neighbours in the apartments nearby about the yard are that it is nasty and is killing us. When is something going to be done? I thought there was something in the works for the single-family garbage (Residents brace for impending change, July 3, 2015), and we hear nothing.
It is scary knowing what is next door and what it could possibly do to us citizens of White Rock.
Betty Skahl, White Rock