City of Medford PIU

very intact male cardinal dead on side of street, might not be easy to avoid but I was able to drive around it

obviously the biggest concern is bird flu as it doesn't look like it was taken as prey

Decapitated goose head by clippership connector

Dead Rat on sidewalk nearly 1 month.
please remove thank you.

Massive dead rat on sidewalk behind old fire station Has been there 2 days

While ice skating on Tufts Park on Morton Avenue at 7 am Wednesday February 19,2025 I was bitten on my right calf by what appeared to be a black and white border collie named Willow .

We have had nine instances this week of off-leash, untrained dogs roaming into our yard and our neighbors’ yards. The owners are often out of sight or far from their dogs, seemingly letting them off-leash in Carr Park and allowing them to run into the woods and nearby properties.

I have also seen off-leash dogs walking dangerously close to the main road, and at times, even running onto it. This is especially concerning given that cars frequently speed through the area, creating a serious risk for both the dogs and drivers.

Additionally, our dog's toys have gone missing from our yard, and we have noticed dog waste left behind in our backyard multiple times this past month. This is becoming a recurring issue, creating both sanitation and safety concerns for residents.

We have attempted to ask dog owners to leash their pets, but we rarely see them nearby to address the issue directly.

There need to be bigger and clearer signs indicating that Carr Park and the surrounding area are strictly "on-leash" zones at ALL times. With all park facilities set to reopen in the coming months, my neighbors and I are deeply concerned that this issue will escalate, causing greater disturbances and safety risks.

Everywhere else is dry, yet there is a constant drainage problem with this puddle here. No doubt as others have indicated that the road issues and potholes are related to this. Wanted to share the photo to further support the case. The grate across the street is dry but dovered with some debri and periodically impacted by a neighbor's french drainage.
It appears to be working while water sits across the stree. Standing water, debris, erosion, flooding.

There is an existing storm sewer (at the center left of the photo) just beyond the far end of the puddle. The existing storm sewer is at the corner of Sagamore Ave. and Ravine Road on this block. But there is currently no storm sewer at the corner of Ravine Road and Shepherd Road, at the near end of the puddle (in the photo). Hence the puddle.

Perhaps an important detail: there has evidently been good bit of recent erosion along the far side of Shepherd Road, forming a long narrow gully (in the photo, on the right) that has perhaps previously been filled with crushed stone and/or gravel, but continues to be washed away.

Perhaps, decades ago when these roads were perhaps first installed, it was graded so that the water drained to the far sewer (in the photo). This is no longer the case, except partially perhaps during a storm.

But it may have always been like this. More likely it was perfect with little margin for any change in grade caused by erosion and geologic forces.

There is a persistent weak geologic force toward the northwest. A combination of that and the erosion, which may be entraining sediments from under the roadway, has perhaps slightly lowered Ravine Road in the vicinity of and now slanting toward the intersection with Shepherd Road.

It is also likely that, over the course of many decades, Sagamore Ave. has been elevated by a few inches.

Perhaps the best solution would be to install an additional storm sewer at the corner of Ravine Road and Shepherd Road (in the photo) and connect it to the existing storm sewer just beyond the far end of the puddle (in the photo).

Re-grading the intersection so that water drains as perhaps originally designed might be very complex.

As further evidence that the change is partly geologic: there is another -- much smaller -- puddle that forms at the opposite corner of Sagamore Ave. and Ravine Road, just south of another existing (seemingly "newer") storm sewer. This other small puddle probably usually dries within a day.

Catch basin full. Water doesn’t go down