Rats Along North Beverwyck

Rats

Doing my litter walk to bank this morning was notified that rats were visible at Hiawatha & North Beverwyck behind the Dairy. This location has been reported by me several times as being in violation of good sanitation and house-keeping practices; as several other ongoing addresses still are. No enforcement or proper communication are occurring at all. The excuse that Parsippany is so big they can’t be everywhere all the time is a weak one. Is the whole town in need of inspections? One must pick the chronic and known on-going and obvious and concentrate on them..

The Mayor claimed during Waterview it was somehow his obligation to create jobs for the outside forces, he neglects making sure his own employees do their jobs correctly. He prefers hiding the truth with flags and flowers. In reality there is no sanitation along North Beverwyck, restaurants and food establishments use municipal receptacles; and plastic bags, both for trash and recycle for their waste; including food waste. How can establishments get away with not having proper waste containers and services to separate and remove food waste properly? Is this how the administration gains favor and votes from the local and corporate business establishments? It appears overwhelming so.

This is not the first time this person has seen rats along North Beverwyck. Any proper inspection would reveal violations of any sane and proper codes of health and sanitation. Perhaps some higher authority need investigate the allowance of improper ordinance enforcement, a laissez faire attitude that does not serve the community but the business and outside property owners. We have forgotten what clean is as trash is everywhere, but nowhere are the obligations and responsibilities of officials and property owners. This can only occur where rats in high places see not rats in reality. The day has come to enforce the laws and keep our spaces free of litter trash and have usufructuary responsibilities of a higher standard especially with the abundance of food waste on North Beverwyck.These rats need be handled properly as to not poison other species that may feed on them. This calls for an organized force stemming from the municipal authorities; Mayor, Police, Sanitation, Health and Housing. Tax payers deserve better, an examination of salaries in these field demand a better performance. Below some salary examples; we have no bang for the buck.

Senior Housing Inspector $27,000-$70,000

Recycling Enforcement Officer $29,000-$85,000

Aide Trainee $15,000-$38,000

Specialist Public Health $25,000-$62,000

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. The essential public character of a law requires that the law must apply to anyone in the jurisdiction where the law applies. Thus, no one can justify his conduct on the grounds that he was not aware of the law. We have no law of sanitation or Health. The same nation that put a man on the moon cannot even take out the garbage, or provide a garbage can. Out of the facts comes the law. Ignoring ordinances of the type we do have brought rats, that is a fact. We Americans are pigs and allowed to be so. No personal responsibility but convenience, No corporate responsibility, but profit and tax evasions and dirty landscapes. No leadership, apathy.

The Issue of Poison verses traps in rat eradication; from an article on rat control.

Poison is a temporary fix - The extermination companies that use poison don’t want to solve your rat problem. They want to sign you up for a never-ending monthly or quarterly contract, and bill you for life. If they solve your rat problem, they lose you as a customer. They know that poison just kills some of the rats, and that you’ll keep calling and calling, because you still have a rat problem.

Poison is ineffective - Yes, poison does kill rats. But it does not kill all of the rats. Only 100% eradication is acceptable in rat control. If you leave just a few, your problem is just as bad as it ever was, because rats reproduce so quickly. The thing about poison is that not all the rats will eat it, and of those that eat it, not all will die. You’ll still have survivor rats, and more and more rats will replace the ones that do die. You’ll have to keep applying poison, and it’s a never-ending cycle.

Poison leave stinking rotting rat carcasses - This is probably the biggest problem with poison. The rats that die will die somewhere in your attic or walls, and when they do, the smell is terrible.

So this is exactly what we have; because of the results of non-Ordinance enforcement and real diligent honest inspections we have inherited a rat population accustomed to the bounty of food-waste present on North Beverwyck Avenue. Who will pay for this on-going perhaps never ending eradication-scheme? The tax-payer while all along we have been paying for officials not enforcing ordinances. We have private economic considerations given preference over public environmental and health requirements. Two members of the former Council stated that nothing can be done, what are you gonna do, as the trash piled up in a manner abnormal and what should of been offensive and uncivil in its evidence. the another alleged outright that North Beverwyck was “clean”, but refused to take a walk with this writer along the avenue. How then could our present Mayor living in Lake Hiawatha not notice, or the so-called inspectors in this field not notice what was occurring? We have therefore the outcome of all this neglect and lack of leadership in favor of violators. If we account for the aberrations of the lack of recycling discipline we have waste a reflection of ourselves and our leaders which fail to lead even in the most basic elements of cleanliness but still receive “clean community” grants and a summer labor force in the name of said clean communities. The core of necessity however is missing enforcement and diligence. Every business and franchise needs a proper sanitation container, they must stop using municipal trash and recycle for waste and they must stop using plastic bags and flimsy plastic trash receptacles.Finally who will collect the dead rats as they are poised and appear in public places?