We have cleaned this section of trail (inside the maintained trail corridor) on many occasions. The trash that is being reported may be what is scattered out well beyond the maintained trail area out into the woods, swamp and flood plain. The Greenway Division along with Walnut Creek Wetland Center scheduled a clean-up day with the Wake County Big Sweep program this past weekend Saturday, March 23rd. Volunteers were there to pick up trash on this section of trail. Hopefully this will address the concerns of all the trash in this area.

Pat, you can always call the non-emergency number at 919-831-6311.They'll figure out what to with it from there.

Thanks for reporting. I have referred this to the City’s Zoning Inspections Division. When they have responded I will update this issue.

Just closing a few old cases. We have been collecting these signs around town for a couple of months now, and have cited the business, but it appears the fine is simply a cost of doing business for them in this seasonal effort. Will continue to try to remove them as they crop up.

Parks and Recreation staff have removed the debris. Closing issue in SeeClickFix.

We are having this checked out, an update will be posted once available. Thanks for reporting.

Not only do these people throw out their trash in public; but they use up city resources to go out and teach them how to live with others and in civilization. Double whammy.

Housing & Envronmental Inspections inspected the property on 2/21/13 and found no violations at this time.

Our greenway crews collect garbage from the area immediately adjacent to the greenway trails (6 feet on either side of the trail) , but the sheer magnitude of work involved in clearing all thousands of acres of public greenway property of trash throughout the City is a daunting one - an issue that there are simply not enough resources to solve. Much of the trash is washed into the stormwater system and into the creeks from houses, yards and parking areas upstream. There are a number of citizen groups who help by doing cleanups each year. I would encourage everyone to consider organizing and participating in our Adopt-a-Stream program: http://www.raleighnc.gov/projects/content/PWksStormwater/Articles/AdoptAStreamProgram.html

I am sorry we cannot do more but this would be a very expensive program for the City to undertake using taxpayer resources:

Part of the issues I'm referring to are within 6 feet of the Greenway. There are hundreds of bottles beside a single walking bridge behind Walnut Creek Sub-Division on the Greenway. I appreciate the magnitude of the additional problem of trash outside the 6ft Greenway Zone. However, I have not seen any Greenway area in the city that resembles the natural trash repository that settles behind Walnut Creek. We are becoming the natural trash repository for the city and it will take more than Adopt-a-Stream to deal with it.

Greenway crews will be conducting a sweep along Walnut Creek and will be cleaning up the mowing strip on either side of the trail. Hopefully this will help a lot, even though I realize it won't entirely solve the problem. I have also referred this to our stormwater utility. Sometimes they organize stream clean-ups relating to clearing downed trees and other water quality initiatives. Hopefully they can target some of these programs to Walnut Creek as well.

Greenway crews have removed 46 bags of trash and debris from this location. The report of oil has been forwarded to Stormwater management for inspection.

The oil sheen is a naturally occurring iron bacteria in stagnate water. This is not threatening the water quality.

Wow. Thanks Greenway Crews for picking the trash up. It would be nice if the courts would sentence the litter droppers to work out here.

I'll pass this back to the Streets Department to see if they can find it.

I think we got it this time.

Thanks, Guys. Why don't the Tow Trucks clean up the streets like they used do?

Our crew was out cleaning this section...hopefully we got all the broken glass. Thanks for reporting!

This address is serviced in an alley way. The route supervisor should have been in contact by now and hopefully has explained the problem with the placement of the material to be collected. Apparently the yard waste is not being placed where it can be seen and collected by the crews, but our route supervisor will follow up to make sure it gets picked up.

Ok thanks. The only way they can't see it is if they are not coming back here. It's in the same place each week and has been picked up in the Past from the same spot so they know where it is.

Our SWS Assistant Director went out to the site and he felt it should have been collected. He's going to work with the crew to make sure they don't miss it next time. Thanks for your patience, and don't hesitate to reopen if the problem occurs again after collection this week!

This has been referred to our Housing and Environmental Inspections Division. When they have responded I will update this issue.

Our inspector has initiated a public nuisance case with a deadline of October 18. The inspector will follow up until the issue is cleared.

Our yard trash has still not been picked this is week 3. The bags of grass smell awful. I understand the delay due to the heat, however they have not come for THREE weeks

That picture is old. There are now 12 bags of lawn waste out there. Nobody at the solid waste number replies to phone calls.

I understand we have been out and have serviced the recycling and yard waste. Please do not hesitate to contact Solid Waste Services Director Fred Battle directly if you have any other trouble with your collection (fred.battle@raleighnc.gov)

Our inspector has initiated a public nuisance case with a deadline of August 23. The inspector will follow up until the issue is cleared.

Thank you. Regarding 312 Freeman, don't the permits expire? No one has touched the house since 2008 (maybe 2009), when this was done. I would also check minimum housing requirements on the two to the right of it.

Through action of the State Legislature, we have been effectively prevented from voiding permits for the past two years. This legislation is set to expire, and when it does we will be looking at a large number of expired permits to see what condition the properties are in and whether further action is necessary on our part if safety issues exist. Our policy in the past has been that even if one nail is hammered, that constitutes continuing work and we have not voided permits where the owner continues to do something, even if it is minor work.

Sorry, meant to close this one out a while ago.

This vehicle has been removed. No violations were discovered when the inspector visited the site.

Our inspector has initiated a public nuisance case with a deadline of August 13. The inspector will follow up until the issue is cleared.

I have notified the Zoning Enforcement division and asked them to have the organizers remove the signs from the poles. The event is not an issue...glad it was a good one, but it is illegal to advertise by posting signs on telephone poles.

Our inspector has initiated a public nuisance case with a deadline of July 23. The inspector will follow up until the issue is cleared.

This was already reported by a neighbor. The related SeeClickFix issue is #205255 . The result was that a public nuisance case was initiated with a deadline for compliance of 7/23/12. Our inspectors will follow up to make sure it is removed.

A N&O truck came by and cleaned all of this up; however, they should be criminally charged for littering and this issue should be documented to find them civilly liable if their unwanted newspapers stack up in front of a house and resulting in its robbery.

We will continue to monitor.

Our inspectors have initiated a public nuisance case with a deadline of Feb. 27. They will follow up to make sure the table gets removed.

These vehicle has now been removed.

If they insist on plastering the city streets with their newspaper, they should note which houses are vacant by seeing how many weeks worth of papers build up and pick up their trash once it has become a wet muddled mess.

Thanks much, Rayray. I appreciate all the posts you make. Thanks for caring.

Our inspector has been out here and the grass right now is not tall enough to constitute a violation. The inspector will be following up in a couple of weeks and if it is not dealt with by then, it's likely to be a violation by that time and they will contact the owner if it is.

The tenant indicates they will clear by Monday. The inspector will be back Tuesday to confirm and will follow up until it is gone.