How about the rats on Connecticut avenue, in DuPont, in Kolorama. . . . !!!!!

This rat issue was tackled in The Post's Daily Gripe:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/daily-gripe/2010/08/more_rats_in_more_places.html

How about the rat holes on City property immediatley across the sidewalks from the restaurants on Connecticut Avenue NW? Very appetizing and healthy.

Also, though I keep my City-issued trash cans closed, the rats sit on the lid and chew rat holes into the top of the can so they can continue to get in and out of closed cans. Two years ago I began requesting new cans. No response. I guess they determined the rats would continue to modify any new cans to their desire. In addition, when I asked about rat control, I was told I would have to get written permission from all of my neighbors on both sides of the alley in case they have pets that roam free and might like to eat rat poison. Hence, no assistance.

Had a similar issue decades ago with rats in the hillside in front and personally had to get all neighbors to sign on to DC gov baiting the block-long hill. That was on private property. Don't think DC gov should lob that responsibility off to the citizenry in the case of public space--alleys and public tree boxes and sidewalks. Official notice should suffice that rat baiting will take place.

I still want to know: 1) what happened to the city's "War on Rats" 2) why Supercans filled with garbage--many with rat holes, without lids, and overflowing--are allowed to be routinely stored in the alley that runs between the 1600 block of Harvard and Hobart Streets, off Mt. Pleasant Street, and 3) when city employees will show up here to replace busted up cans, notify residents to store their cans on their own premises, locate public and private problem areas, and put down rat bait. Or do they have other solutions to the growing rat problem?

Rats continue to run in the 1600 block of Hobart/Harvard alley in Mt. Pleasant. One frozen dead rat this week behind 1644 Hobart, about 6 pounds. Two others ran in front of my car last night at around 11 pm. Garbage cans are permanently still stored in the alley at all the times. If residents were required to move their garbage cans onto their own property, as DC law and regulations require, perhaps they would notice the rats and wonder what they should do about them, such as call an exterminator to evaluate the rat nest possibility in their own back yard...? Rats don't live in the alley, people--they live and procreate in the nests they've dug under your front and back yards and in the public parks. Just a thought DC Public Works, Solid Waste and Enforcement office. Take action!

This issue somehow did not get assigned a tracking number from DC311. If you want them to do something you're going to have to report it again and they'll put a tracking number in the comments so we can track progress.