Editor:
I live at the eastern end of Panorama Ridge, and I try to get a short walk in each day.
My walk was extended when a 16-acre parcel of forest was sold a couple of years ago, cleared and prepared for a new subdivision.
I have walked and watched as the services went in, and the homes began to appear. They are all very large, imposing and luxurious homes, the majority still in the finishing stages.
At the end of the dead-end road, I walk in a circular turnaround, and over the past two years the odd bag of garbage has been left there – the broken microwave, the old vacuum cleaner – the detritus of everyday lives that people seem not to know how to dispose of.
The number of black garbage bags has grown over the last few weeks. but yesterday I was totally shocked. A wall of garbage bags was piled all around the edge of this cul-de-sac, three or four bags high.
This is not one individual’s garbage, this is a truckful of bags.
Here in Surrey, we have excellent garbage collection – streets are regularly lined with bins and then emptied of them. Nobody living in Surrey needs to find somewhere to throw trash, so my suspicions are that other municipalities with less-than-stellar service have people picking up their trash and delivering it to us.
One of these days our trucks and staff are going to have to clean up this mess at taxpayers’ expense.
A sign stating ‘no dumping’ would obviously not be understood by these selfish and amoral louts who feel any piece of bare dirt is there for them to use as a dumping ground.
Sheila Gair, Surrey