City of Salem PLUS

On 6/18 at 9:51 pm my building security cameras captured images and video of a young male discarding their bike with our trash barrels. This person is not a tenant in our building. This item will not be picked up by regular trash and will fall on the association to pay for the removal. This is unacceptable. Please let me know where to send the video footage.
Kaitlin McKenna
978-335-3445
[email protected]
Owner of 63-1 Palmer at Salem MA 01970

I've noticed this bike sitting here for at least a few weeks. I'm unsure if all my other photos got uploaded, but I had a shot of how rusted the chain and the flat back tire are.

There is always a flooded section of the road (leaving Swampscott) at the curve by the golf driving range at the slightest amount of rain On more than one occasion I have had so much water come over my windshield and I was driving blind for a couple seconds It is a serious safety hazard In the daytime you can see it but at night there are no street lights and it is hidden A head on collision could easily happen here

Basin is filled with leaves. As the rain and snow season makes it more difficult to rake and clean up as a volunteer, the basins need to be cleaned out by the city

There is no catch basin on Emerald Ave, leaving us with an iced over street that is totally unsafe. The street is left impassable for any potential emergency vehicles. Please install adequate drainage on my street. I sent a request for assistance to [email protected] today, but I don't know if anyone is monitoring it.

Submitted as a catch drain issue because there is no catch drain at the end of our street. This causes significant flooding both from all points on the street, which then flows through a makeshift trench to the wetland area behind the property. This flooding is representative of any significant rain or snow. Submitting to request follow up to explore catch basin installation or mitigation from the city.

The previous request was marked CLOSED but nothing was changed or fixed.

Three basins along Forrester (near Emerton) have construction cloth lining them, all of which have several inches of dirt/mud built up. But the problem here is WE CAN'T HAVE THEM ON THIS STREET. We have flooding already when every basin is open. Now we get flooding any time it rains hard.
Moreover: These filters aren't actually working as intended because once the the drains go past capacity any debris trapped by the cloth just gets pushed up and out those basins, disperses into the flooded street and eventually go down the more open drains.

It would be one thing if these drains were catching all kinds of construction related debris, and then they got deposited into a dumpster or wherever, but they don't. They only contribute to more frequent flooding and then dump out any debris all at once.

We need them 100% REMOVED. Not looked into, or have better monitoring, but removed.

Thinking contractors are going to monitor these when it rains is nonsensical, first and foremost, because it assumes they'd even be here during any given storm. No one is going to rush out a 2AM to check on the drains at their jobsite. Please have them remove them asap, before we get additional storms coming through.

Clogged solid after every rain, huge puddles. Preventive maintenance goes a long way. Ample notice before winter sets in and a slip and fall accident occurs