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Thursday, 18 October 2012

Orihuela Town Council have reacted to my Weblog.

On Tuesday 16th October 2012, two days ago, I added the article to this weblog entitled 'Orihuela Town Council fails to maintain a clean environment for its inhabitants'. I put a link to it on my Twitter and Facebook social media pages, and emailed the link to a few of my contacts.

Today I received the following email from the Orihuela Town Council:

Buenos días Sr. Sampford:

Por medio del presente, habiendo tenido conocimiento de la situación en que se encuentra el punto de recogida de podas sito en la C/ Ontario, deseamos informarle de las actuaciones previstas por el servicio de Aseo Urbano de la Concejalía de Infraestructuras, Servicios y Mantenimiento para tratar de atajar la acumulación de podas/escombros/basura en la zona indicada.

En primer lugar y, como acción inmediata, se procederá esta misma tarde, salvo caso fortuito o fuerza mayor, al vaciado y retirada de la poda que pudiera estar depositada in situ, tanto en el suelo como en los contenedores habilitados a tal efecto; y, en segundo lugar, como medida de disuasión, se colocará en breve en dicho emplazamiento un cartel indicativo que informe de la prohibición de arrojar basura, podas y escombros en la vía pública.

Aprovechando este correo, le indicamos igualmente que el contenedor habilitado para la recogida de poda domiciliaria será vaciado los días establecidos al efecto según zonificación; lo que en su zona se traduce en Sábados / Lunes; no obstante, en caso de hallarse el mismo lleno, siempre pueden Vds. contactar con esta Dependencia para comunicar este extremo y requerir su vaciado.

Agradeciendo su colaboración, reciba nuestros cordiales saludos.

P.D.: Se adjunta folleto informativo sobre sistema de zonificación para la recogida de poda y enseres.”

To summarize the letter: it informs me that the Council are now aware of the problem of the large volume of uncollected rubbish, and the action that is to be taken by the Urban Cleaning Service department of the Council's Department of Infrastructure, Services and Maintenance to rectify the situation.

Their plan is that the rubbish, both that which has been dumped on the road and that in the skip, will be collected today - unless something else gets in the way. In addition, as a preventative deterrent, it is their intention, sometime in the future, mañana, to place a sign at this location informing the public that it is an illegal act to dump rubbish of any sort on public highways: what optimism on their part.

It is pleasing to have received a reaction from the Council on two counts. The most important is that the unsightly; unhygienic; pile of rubbish will be collected at long last and with possible action to alleviate future problems. The other is knowing that people read my weblog and that the content can cause a response, of some degree, where the subject is relevant to them.



Follow up article: Orihuela Town Council has almost cleared all the rubbish. 


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