City of Medford PLUS

A mess of discarded furniture on the sidewalk near 38 Dexter Ave. It has been there for about a month.

There is another mess of stuff on Dexter closer to Main Street that has also been there about a month ..

Three mattresses on the sidewalk leaning up against a fence. It started as one a few months ago. Now it is up to three.

Squatter living under a tarp. All trash around the area. Nothing has been done. Extreme health hazard. Its been many posts about this. He is at 970 fellsway on the railroad side can be seen from the bridge on fellsway

the occupant has built an outside shower and the contaminated waste water is running into soil. Can't get clear photo because the occupant purposefully and intentionally put up a fence to block this illegal activity and entry to the property would be trespassing.

Someone dumped a tire on the sidewalk at the corner of Emerald and Surrey St.

Pile is growing daily, blocking sidewalk

Trash along fence at wrights pond on aquavia

There is trash all along Commercial Street, the road that passes behind Ocean State Job Lot. There is a guardrail installed in the pavement that presumably demarcates the boundary between the roadway and the back of the Ocean State Job Lot store or back alley or receiving area.

There is a profusion of very small litter, trash and man-made debris. This should not be the case. It should be picked up.

Elsewhere along Commercial Street, there is trash, litter and man-made debris on the side of the road, on the pavement, and co-mingled in the vegetation such as bamboo. Some of it is perhaps on private property, very close to the back walls of abutting buildings.

This entire site should be cleaned up. Then, the old pavement and other permanent structures would have a certain charm.

It may seem like a huge amount of work to pick up so much trash, especially because there are so many bits and small items. But the gain in improved environment would be commensurate.

Also, the owner(s) of this property should pick up the lot frequently or somehow get their customers to cease and desist from littering and illegal dumping. If it isn't customers they should find who.

This is an environmental justice issue. Shoppers here and motorists on Commercial Street deserve a roadside free of litter, trash and man-made debris.

The fact that this is a common problem though out eastern Massachusetts does not lessen its severity. Something must be done. We can not accept the status quo of litter everywhere.

It is on both public and private property, perhaps mostly public.