City of Medford PLUS

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  • Brogan Rd & Park St Medford, MA, 02155, USA - Medford
    There is a dead squirrel on the street right next to the curb in front of 295/297 park st
  • 295 Park St Medford, MA, 02155, USA - Medford
    STILL a dead squirrel next to the sidewalk of 295 park street
  • Brogan Rd & Park St Medford, MA, 02155, USA - Medford
    Please remove the dead squirrel. It has been here for days
  • 40 Golden Ave Medford, Massachusetts, 02155 - Medford
    dead rabbit in the middle of the road
  • 9a Quincy St Medford, Massachusetts, 02155 - Medford
    Big dead rat on sidewalk outside of 9A Quincy St.
  • 1-9 Morton Ave Medford, MA, 02155, USA - Medford
    There’s a dead bird by a tree at the playground
  • 143 Summer Street Medford, Massachusetts, 02155 - Medford
    Smushed in the road
  • 71 Boston Avenue Medford, Massachusetts, 02155 - Medford
    Dead rabbit on road (Boston Ave)
  • 7 Rock Glen Road Medford, MA, 02155, USA - Medford
    dead squirrel on sidewalk outside our home
  • 54 Ship Ave Medford, MA, 02155, USA - Medford
    Walking along mystic river trail, a small grey dog (goes by “Nicky) somewhere along 54-68 Ship Avenue ran down from the property, jumped through a wooden fence, and bit us while walking our dog home from the Medford dog park. No issue with our dog, this dog cleary is not socialized and is territorial beyond the property limits. This is the second or third time this dog has acted aggressively but first time it has bitten.
  • 2-34 Harris Rd Medford, MA, 02155, USA - Medford
    large black dog with brown facial spots and shaggy ears
  • 28 Ravine Rd Medford, Massachusetts, 02155 - 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.