New Dumpster Delivered Where Garbage Was On Ground

I sent an email to 311 on Sept 13 to take care of the garbage that was dumped on the ground behind one of the houses in my back lane. I specifically requested that the issue be submitted as a complaint regarding the residence dumping garbage on the ground and not in a dumpster. I also requested the issue be directed to the attention of Waste Management and asked if a dumpster could be placed in that location. I said there was a large gap between dumpsters where that residence was located.
My request to have the issue sent to the two different departments was done, and I was given reference numbers for each "ticket" created.

My request to have a dumpster placed behind the residence was also followed through. There is now a dumpster sitting behind the house in question. And the dumpster is now almost full. I think there may have been a need for a dumpster at that very location.
It is moments like this that I feel my words are not in vein. :)

Woken up at 3:48AM - sent complaint to 311

I was woken up again from the Party Duplex bringing their loud shouting, swearing and unpleasant banter outside. This time it only lasted twenty minutes. I think it was 4 degrees below zero last night. I guess they didn't like the temperature and went back inside by 4:10. But that did not change the fact that we were woken up again. And we were kept awake for twenty minutes while listening to these inconsiderate people yelling and swearing at each other.
I sent an email to 311. I am lodging a complaint regarding noise. According to the Neighbourhood Liveability By-Law, this noise is not acceptable. Here's hoping something will get done.

I would like to make a noise complaint regarding ####### Ave.

I was woken up last night at 3:48AM by loud shouting and swearing coming from the back yard of ####### Ave. This went on for twenty minutes last night.

I was also woken up last weekend by noise coming from the back yard of ####### Ave.

Sunday Sept 12 at 3:00am I was woken up by loud yelling and swearing. It went on for two hours, until 5:00am. A guest of ####### Ave, who drives a burgundy K-Car was also driving his loud car up and down the alley all night, starting at about midnight. The car has no muffler and makes a terrible noise.

I was also woken up on Saturday morning Sept 11 at 4:20am by loud yelling and swearing coming from the back yard of ####### Ave. The woman yelling in the back yard was also smashing a vehicle that was in the same back yard.

I was also woken up by loud yelling, swearing, screaming, threats to neighbours, breaking of windows, breaking of fence on the morning of Aug 20 at 4:30am coming from the same back yard. This incident resulted in the police arriving the next day and action being taken, including the residents leaving. But it was only a temporary relocation and they residents are back. They are continuing the disturb the neighbourhood.

According to the Neighbourhood Liveability By-Law, this noise is not acceptable. I would like action taken regarding this issue. I would like to know what is being done with this issue.

Comment: "nothing happened until they murdered someone on our front street"

I received a comment on a post I did on Sunday Sept 12 entitled I Call The Police This Morning For Advise On The Party Duplex . This post was regarding a problem house on my block. The neighbourhood has been calling the police all summer regarding problems with drinking and loud shouting matches all night long. The By-Law Officers have been called regarding large amounts of garbage in the yard. The tenants were temporarily removed at the end of August. The house was cleaned out. And the tenants moved back in. Now the partying has started again. When I called the police I was told to just keep calling when there are isues and eventually the landlord will get tired of dealing with the issue and evict the tenants.
The comment I received reads as follows:

It has to get very bad before the police will actually do anything, i called the police, landlord and eventually the real estate agent on the sign at the property that was the source of hell beside my home, nothing happened until they murdered someone on our front street.
I hope it never gets that bad for you and your neighbors.

There needs to be a change to the Residential Tenancy Act. There needs to be a change to the Neighbourhood Liveability By-Law. The problem houses need to be dealt with long before a murder occurs in someones front yard.

Thursday is Garbage Day In My Back Lane

Sure enough, 6am I heard the garbage truck coming down the lane. I sure am getting service these days. I could set my calendar to the garbage trucks now. Even civic holidays don't disrupt my Thursday garbage day. And this week the dumpsters were not even overflowing. There were a few dumpsters that were actually full, but not all of them. I think this week we only had regular residential garbage in our dumpsters. How weird is that!!!

There were a few issues in the back lane though. First, there is a dresser, two chairs and a foam mattress beside one of the dumpsters. The dresser has been there since Sept 4, and the foam mattress and chairs have been there since at least the 11th of Sept. I guess I was just wondering if they would be removed without me making a ticket. I am getting the feeling that I am the only one on my block that is reporting these items to 311. I was thinking that the paid employee of the City of Winnipeg that drives down the lanes verifying tickets might also drive down lanes looking for items for pickup. Maybe that was a little wishful thinking on my part. I will get on that today and report the items to 311 so the City worker can drive down my lane and verify that the items do need to be picked up. I think I should take a walk down the other lanes in my area as well, then, and see what other items have collected since the last time I did a back lane check. What would these people do without me? Maybe I should become a City Worker. Maybe 311 should put me on the payroll to walk or drive down back lanes and streets and report all the large items that are just sitting there, week after week. I could follow the garbage trucks and take note of the items they leave behind.

I could locate back yards where people leave their garbage in bags thinking the garbage trucks will pick it up. Here is a pile of garbage that is missing a dumpster. This garbage has been here since Sept 4. The people moved out of the house where these items are sitting. They did not bother to walk the garbage to one of the dumpsters in the back lane. The garbage trucks do not pick up anything that is not in a dumpster, and because this is just on the ground, it will stay there until I make a ticket to tell someone about it. I actually did make a ticket a few days ago. I requested that it be sent to City By-Laws for investigation. I also requested that this issue be looked at by those that decide where dumpsters go. There is a big gap in space between dumpster locations on either side of this particular residence. Maybe part of the fault in this garbage being dumped on the ground is that there is no dumpster close to this property. I wonder if one of the dumpsters at the end of the lane will get moved over behind that house. That would make sense to me. Why have a huge gap, then three dumpsters at the end of the lane.

If I was patrolling the back lanes of the North End I could also keep an eye on houses that choose to leave their garbage right below their upstairs windows. The upstairs tenant of the Party House is still tossing garbage out the window, and it just stays on the ground below. As the weeks go by, the garbage pile will grow, I am sure. It will grow until finally it is at the point where the City By-Laws officers will request the landlord to clean the property again.

The apples are still falling from the tree in the back yard of the Party House, and remaining on the ground. Nobody is cleaning them up. They are on the ground rotting and turning into muck. I could not imagine walking on that lawn. There are kids in the house and kids that play in the yard. The apples just squish under ones foot if they are stepped on. And the apples are still full of wasps. And the apples are feeding any animal around that needs to feed. I read the liveability act. This should not be an acceptable back yard. If I was employed to go down the back lanes and look for issues like this I could report them. But I am not. I am just a resident of one city block. I am just a resident who reached a tipping point. I am just one resident in the North End trying to take back my neighbourhood.