By WAYNE ALLEN
PDT Staff Writer
When the Lawrence-Scioto Solid Waste Management District teamed up with Portsmouth Municipal Court Judges Steven Mowery and Russell Kegley to clean up Scioto County they meant business.
During the first week of cleanup efforts crews picked up nearly 10 tons of litter.
According to Dale Herdman with Portsmouth Municipal Court, crews cleaned Rosemount and Kendall Avenue on Tuesday and picked up .43 tons of litter. On Wednesday, crews cleaned Pleasant and Thomas avenues and picked up .51 tons of litter. On Thursday, crews cleaned Ohio 139, Robinson, Eighth Street viaduct and several alleys in Portsmouth and picked up 3.21 tons of litter. On Friday, crews cleaned U.S. 52 from New Boston leading into Portsmouth, Sciotoville exit, and Milldale.
“We are going to start highlighting specific areas that have been neglected and start addressing these,” said Dan Palmer, director of the Lawrence-Scioto Solid Waste Management District.
According to Palmer, those areas include Portsmouth, Rosemount Hill and a number of other locations.
Mowery said he hopes to establish a rotating schedule of places crews can hit on a regular basis.
“People tend to be positive if they start to see a difference. They then feel pride about the way things look when it’s clean. If we can reach that point again, where we have pride about what we see, I think that will become contagious,” Mowery said. “I would like to see all of us take our community back. It’s going to take all of us to make this happen.”
For more information about the Lawrence-Scioto Solid Waste Management District, call 888-565-7888 or visit www.lsswmd.org.
thanks for getting rosemount rd area cleaned up. i live on the rt 23 side of rosemount rd and since i moved here in march of 2007 I would pick up trash in front of my house, across the street, in front of my neighbors, and all the way around the curve. It seems if I would keep it picked up they would throw alot less out.
many times I"ve always wanted to pick up trash all the way up the hill and over the other side,but with bad knees just couldn"t do it. I have picked up trash at the stop light (rosemount point/rt23) because the garden and water fall was so nice that TIM DOLYE Garden center had work on in the past.
people from all over the state cross over rosemount rd to rt52 to rt23 and from rt23 to rt52. Its makes people think I wouldn"t want to live around here its a garbage dump!
This rosemount rd area is a scenic area especially at the top where people stop at the deck and take pictures with the valley behind them.
This is a nice area wish people would have more respect, it may not hurt to get couple of signs that its illegal to throw trash out. sometimes I"ll pick up the same type of bag,same type receipt of the food ordered, and from the same restauant... Mcdonalds,Taco-bell,Kentucky fried,ect because people have a habit of eating and throwing it out at the same spot everyday 5-7 days a week.
one other problem is the speed on this road, you coundn"t get tag number if your life depended on it, let alone pulling out of your drive-way with out getting ran over.
again I want to thank our two portsmouth municipal court judges (judge mowery/judge kegley)for looking out for Rosemount Area and Scioto county, Thanks Very Much!
How did it ever become socially acceptable for our civilization to accept (or care less about) throwing trash along highways? Or trash dumps.
The Municipal Court Judges did the right thing; and should continue take advantage of people-resource to clean up after others.