Snow Dump

I saw this the other day. The city removed the yellow cement barriers to this small park.


This is where they moved them to.

Irony : Dumping at a no dump park.

So they started dumping snow in it. It is their property so they have the right to do what they want with it.
I would expect a warning sign to be put up in the spring-summer , warning people not to play there with their children or pets, unless they want to ingest toxic materials from the ground.
I don`t think they will put up a warning sign.
Then if a child or a pet gets poisoned by lead or whatever toxic materials are left over when the snow melts, no one will be able to trace it back to its source. Who is going to pay for the tests to the land (summer grass) to prove the point of origin? Sue the city etcetra?

Lead poisoning stories

 http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/12/soil-lead-researcher-howard-mielke

"I had been involved in doing lead work already, and I discovered that her childcare center in the state of Minnesota had interiors that were very well maintained, but they let the children go outside in basically a hazardous waste site because nobody had bothered about the outside.

She was playing in a sandbox and around the sandbox was soil contaminated with lead..."

Half a Million children have lead poisoning...

December 14, 2012

I had a previous post telling that it was the end of the season, it wasn't. We had a few more good days.
Like the Jerry Seinfeld comedy bit on how to turn over a soda machine or a relationship, it rocks back and forth a few times before it falls over.
It is now winter with everything frozen.

December 9, 2012

Cleaned the RDP 200 shoreline location. Found a chunk of metal as well. It was good I went this day because previously large pieces of garbage were frozen into the ice making it unsightly. Today it was thawed out so I could retrieve them.

I discovered why the guy living on the right hand side of the park has no Johnson-Rod. He himself is dumping into the river , so I expect he is afraid of calling authorities on the garbage he witnesses people dump, lest he be found to be in trouble as well.

So here is the tip: If you find someone doing something illegal or bad, use that against them for your own benefit. If in calling attention to you, they will call attention to themselves, you know you are safe. Providing they are intelligent enough to know they are guilty of something, so fear calling.

December 7, 2012

Cleaned up broken glass from the shoreline in Cheval Blanc/ Whitehorse woods, in the area where that orange chair was earlier in the summer. I used a screwdriver as it was frozen on the surface of the ground. I also used an old back pack , that the white bucket fits into, to carry it all the way back to the official green-space park of the city.

December 6, 2012

Cleaning the woods of Cheval Blanc/ Whitehorse rapids

December 5, 2012

The Cap-Saint-Jacques Nature Park Rapids

The Cap-Saint-Jacques Nature Park Rapids looking upstream from a tiny island.

I cleaned along the woods trail.

I cleaned up after the fisher men , fisher boys.

Lots and lots of indestructible plastic fishing-line and broken beer bottles. Also in the top right a chunk of metal bar. I found all kinds of junk here (on the shoreline) and put what I could in the wooden green garbage bin on the left.

December 4, 2012

Cleaned Cheval Blanc Rapides/ Whitehorse Rapids shoreline near the park.





December 2, 2012

Cleaning RDP 200 shoreline. Garbage is stuck in the frozen ice.

December 1, 2012 End of the cleaning season

Today is Saturday Dec 1st, 2012.
This is the end of cleaning season for me for 2012.
Snow covers the ground in most places.

I was thinking of taking out the five old car tires that are ontop of the roofing shingles in whitehorse rapids|cheval blanc rapids woods, but I guess it will have to wait until next year.

I will have to find another form of exercise to stay healthy over the winter.

I might make a single blog post with the significant events of the year.