City of Medford PLUS

My husband was attacked by a dog this morning on his run around 6:45 along Harvard Ave not far from Jerome St. the dog took a chunk of his shorts and broke the skin. He failed to stop and talk to the owner if the dog was up to date on vaccines (rabies). It was an older white woman with grey hair who has a black and white border collie (or similar breed) On a long leash. She was calling a name that sounded like "Jerome".

Dogs off leash All the time
Thought it was a law city wide
NO OFF LEASH
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Unless in actual dog park fenced in ???????????

Dog was off leash and out of the owner’s control. Owner physically reprimanded dog when he finally caught it. Owner was then belligerent when asked to use a leash, and left the scene

Every weekday morning between 8 and 9 a.m., there's a group of people who allow multiple dogs to run off-leash, despite the posted signs stating that dogs must be leashed.

On June 30th around 8:45am, while I was walking near the playground, I was cornered by more than one dog, including a boxer and a larger dog that lunged at me. Even when the owner attempted to restrain the larger dog, it dragged her to the ground in the struggle. This was an alarming and unsafe situation, especially considering that children are often present in the park.

I've attached a picture from today (July 7th) showing dogs continue to be off leash near the playground.

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.

Hello, during the wind and rain storm on Monday, the street in front of 16-20 Sherwood Rd flooded (picture attached) The floodwater deposited loads of leaves, sticks and mud from the entire neighborhood (this is the low point) Is there any way this can be cleaned up by a crew or a street cleaner? Even if we clean it up, we have nowhere to put all the debris Thanks!a