City of Medford PIU

dead rabbit appears to have had a severe injury

It is in the gutter just before a bus stop.

There are also several pieces of plastic trash which they could scoop up at the same time with a flat shovel.

An obstacle for a snowplow (snow is forecast tonight).

There is a dead animal in the road (possibly bunny, hopefully not a cat) that needs to be cleaned up, birds are picking at it and cars are continuing to run it over. Thank you.

Dead rabbit in crosswalk

In front of 299 Riverside Ave, there is a dead rabbit in the snow back. It is on the inner part of the snow bank, facing the sidewalk.

Dead skunk on Winthrop St/begining of main st. Thank you

Dead raccoon by tree

There is a dead squirrel on the street right next to the curb in front of 295/297 park st

A German Shepherd off leash jumped me and put his entire jaw around my thigh before the owner called him off! All I was doing was walking by!

Medford has a serious epidemic of dogs off leash. Why is this not being enforced? Isn’t there a leash law? There are numerous dogs running around while Neighbors chat with each other. The dogs are a menace. Many owners are also not picking up after their dogs so there is dog poo everywhere. Please enforce the leash law. It has become increasingly unsafe and stressful to take walks in the beautiful paths in Medford.

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.