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This post is about the letter that my sweet caren lady, hand delivered to the Selectman's Office.
As you can see in this photo, the Charlestown Transfer Station is not very handicap accessible or friendly!
This next photo show's the end of the middle step is broken. This step has been this way for over a month. If these were stairs at a home that I was doing an Inspection of, this sure would be in my report as needing to be fixed.
May 12,2009
Town of Charlestown
Selectman or Whomever can help
Some problems, and possible solutions with the Charlestown Transfer Station:
The transfer station is not very handicap accessible/friendly:
I would suggest that a ramp be built to allow access to the recycle bins. As it is, we have to go up and down the stairs for the glass and then up and down the other stairs for ore plastic/tin and paper products.
Lots of broken & shattered glass:
I would suggest that the bin that is used for paper be used for glass instead. As it is, the open bin that is being used for glass. Every week I see people stand on the ground and just throw their glass up into the bin, causing shattered glass to fly everywhere, on the ground and on the stairs and walkways. I have even been hit in the face with shattering glass thrown by others and I have gotten cuts on my hands, as I have to hold onto the railings to get up and down the stairs and they always have glass shard on them. Using the bin with the restricted holes in the top would force people to go up on to the walkway to dump their glass into the bin.
Bee's (summer is upon us again)
I am severely allergic to bee stings, I'm sure there are others that are also. And you have bee's swarming the area in the summer. Washing of bottles & cans should be required. Some one should be there to check everyone for a couple of weeks-after that I would think spot checking to mak sure everyone is complying would do. Or I would suggest hiring a professional to come and spray the area. When a Bee lands where it has been sprayed by a professional, they die with in a minute- drastically reducing the number of bee's in the area of the recycle bins are.
Disposing of Sharps/needles
The transfer station does not really have a safe method for disposal of sharps/needles. They suggest sharps be put into a plastic laundry detg bottle and thrown into the hopper. I would think they would then be squished the bottles broken up, causing exposed sharps mixed in with the trash for another facility down the road to have to deal with.
I thank you for considering the above changes to make the transfer station a safer place for all to use.
Deborah Walker
P.O. Box 570
Charlestown, NH 03603
603-826-4207
She also had her work phone number here.
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Will it turned out they were haven a meeting on Thursday the 21 of May, was Deb told about the meeting to take place when she dropped off her letter? No she was not!
Did anyone call to say, we are haven a meeting on the 21 , if you and if you know of any other concerned residents of Charlestown that would like to come to the Select board meeting? No they did not!
Heres what was put in the paper on Friday the 22 of May :
Select board members addressed a letter from resident Deborah Walker concerning issues with the transfer station at their bi-monthly meeting last night.
Quote of- Transfer station supervisor Keith Weed explained to board members that building a ramp would push the bins out an estimated 6 to 8 feet into the parking lot. The way the recycling bins are, there's no way to have a ramp and have them still be indoors, Weed said. Quote.
Will I'm not sure how the bins would end up being pushed out in to the parking lot, when the ramps would be part of the steps on the side of the bins. You sure can't put a ramp in the back of them, seen that there is a wall there. Maybe he needs to go to a Construction 101 class.
The board memebers decided that having attendants assist handicapped individuals at the transfer station will be more immediately effective and a lot less expensive to do. Will most of the time you never see any of the transfer station attendants any where around when you go there.
Heres what I have to say, to the Charlestown Selectman: Y'all need to remember we the people of Charlestown. Can put you in the unemployment line if you don't want to listen to us!
And it sure does look like high time we have some new Selectman's in office to me.
Just maybe I'll be one of them!
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Dale, you sound like a very concerned citizen here, as you always do - why don't you run for Selectman?
Howdy there Virginia
It sure is always a real pleasure to have you stop in to visit for a bit. And to read and write a reply to a comment, that you have left. On one of the posts, here at my little ole Blogging Homestead, my friend
I sure can't believe the Charlestown Selectmans are that much of tight wads that they are not at all really concerned about handicapped and senior residents of our town. And not want to do something about maken easyer for them to recycle at the Charlestown Transfer Station.
Will my friend, I have never been a politician. Only a warhorse. But I am really thinking tossing my hat in to the ring, as they say.
Good for Deb for writing the letter, shame on the selectmen for their response, and good for you for posting about the situation in your town! You would make a great Selectman, Dale!
Howdy there Shirley
I'm always glad to have you stop by to visit, and to read and reply to your fine comments. Left on any one of the posts, here at my little ole Blogging Homestead, my friend
I sure am really proud of Deb, for written that letter to the selectmen. Sure is to bad the select board and the transfer station supervisor, can't see fit to fix the problems around the recycleing bins. I'm looking in to and writing down the pros and cons of the job. And just what I need to do to run.
Dale,
Good idea.
One thing that they should appreciate is that when someone "works" there every day they may not "realize" the things crumbling around them...
kind of like a seller that can't see past their own messy house?
But once a point has been made, shirley you would think that it would be addressed!
Those steps look like an accident waiting to happen to me. As for the bee's you see that at our local convenience stores swarming around trash cans with soda bottles, they are after the sugar. As for the glass and needles, danger, danger, danger. another accident waiting to happen and then a law suit. Dale you need to get those folks straightened out, just keep writing letters ... the pulbic will catch on soon when more folks start to express their concerns.
Howdy there Sheila, Carl and Ceil
Its alway a pleasure to have Y'all stop by to sit and visit for a bit, and read and write back to your fine comments. On this here post about the Charleatown Selectman turning their backs. Here at my little ole Blogging Homestead, my friends
Sheila - my lady Deb before she wrote that letter and hand delivered it to the selectman office, had talked to the transfer station's supervisor. Three weeks before, he tolded her that they knew how things should be ran there. And needed no help doing it. A real fine how do you do, from a town worker.
Carl and Ceil - that they do my friend. there had to be a lot of weight put on the corner of that step, for it brake the way it did. Bees sure do like their sugar, thats for sure. Its just that Deb is very allergic to bee stings, she had to carey a bee sting kid every where she goes in the summer time. Just don't understand why they can't see that its a law suit waiting to happen to them. Thats part of the reason I wrote this here post, to get the word out about how the Town leaders feel about fixen things. And that they don't aways let us know when they will be talking about issues that brought to them, and they are going to talk about it at one of their meetings. For now on I'll be going to every meeting they have.