City reminds residents of stormwater quality this fall

-

While fall seemed to have come and gone in a flash with the arrival of snow Monday, colorful leaves still sprinkle several yards after the cold snap.

The Jefferson City Public Works Department reminded residents to be conscientious of water quality when raking leaves and adding winter chemicals.

Residents can rake leaves and compost them as mulch and fertilizer around trees, flower beds and gardens, according to a city news release last week. They could also mulch the leaves in their current location using lawn mowers equipped for mulching.

The compost facility at 2417 Southridge Drive also accepts bags of leaves.

Burning is another option, if the outdoor conditions are suitable for burning. Open burning season runs Nov. 1-March 1, 2019, during daylight hours, the news release states.

The city encouraged residents to not rake leaves into the streets or stormwater system, as the leaves can clog stormwater inlet grates and block drainage.

Residents should also avoid disposing large amounts of leaves in creeks and along creek banks. Leaves "suffocate the established vegetation whose roots are holding the soil in place," speeding up creek bank erosion, the news release states. The decomposition of large amounts of leaves in creeks can also reduce the available oxygen for water-dwelling insects, fish and amphibians.

The department urged residents to dispose of pet waste appropriately. Residents should never dispose of pet waste, yard waste or other pollutants in drainage ways, the release states.

Residents should avoid adding large amounts of salt or deicing chemicals to sidewalks or driveways. While it may be more convenient to apply extra salt or chemicals during winter, the news release states, the excess chemicals are washed into creeks and rivers when the snow melts or it rains.

If a vehicle is leaking oil or other fluids, the city suggested containing the leak in drip pans and disposing of it properly to avoid washing the liquids into the stormwater system.

Related Article

Ask a Master Gardener: Leaf raking, tree fertilizing tips and when to plant garlic

Read more


https://ift.tt/2K0Vn5k

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

All In The Family: Maine Mother & Son Charged in Massive Drug Bust

-
Image
corso dog :: Article Creator Woman Hospitalized After Attack By 2 Dogs At Same Edmonton Home Where Boy Died: Lawyer UPDATE: On April 15, 2024, the City of Edmonton provided an update on the fatal attack. It said that prior to the deadly incident on April 1, "the city had no lawful basis to remove the dogs from the home." The city added that "all prior complaints about the dogs involved in this incident were investigated thoroughly and appropriate action was taken in accordance with the applicable legislation." The city also said a review found that its staff "acted appropriately in accordance with our standard practices and in compliance with the relevant legal constraints given the nature of past complaints and reports." A woman was hospitalized after being attacked in February by two large Cane Corso dogs at the same home where an 11-year-old boy was killed last week, the woman's lawyer told Global News. "I
Read more

Rare Frogs And Illegal Drugs - Palisades Hudson Financial Group

-
Image
Colombian conservationist Ivan Lozano has hit on a brilliantly promising strategy to protect his country’s rare and endangered amphibians. His plan: Flood the market with them. Lozano is not hunting rare frogs in Colombia’s Andean forests. He is raising them himself and selling them at prices designed to undercut poachers and smugglers. If he can raise the frogs cheaply enough, and in large enough numbers, he might manage to drive down the market price to the point that poachers no longer find it worthwhile to harvest and smuggle the creatures onto the black markets. Lozano told The Associated Press that his company also encourages collectors to breed their own frogs. Picture yourself as a poacher. If the government toughens the legal penalties and steps up enforcement, you will shrug your shoulders; legal risks are a basic cost of doing business. Since the demand for your product already exists among foreign collectors and other buyers, tougher enforcement merely reduces supply a
Read more

Burn scars, winter storms threaten rare and endangered species in San Gabriel Mountains - The Bakersfield Californian

-
Image
LOS ANGELES — Up until a few weeks ago, the West Fork of the San Gabriel River was one of the most abundant wildlife habitats in Los Angeles County, a secluded and rugged area defined by its steep peaks, lush canyons and mixture of rare and endangered species. Recently however, a team of federal biologists and forest rangers was aghast when it visited the stream following the Bobcat fire, which has burned more than 115,000 acres in the heart of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. Terrain that once resembled a High Sierra granite gorge now looked like ground zero after a nuclear explosion, and the usually clean mountain air was sharp with the stench of smoke. Particularly unsettling were the bare and ashen slopes that were now primed to dissolve under pounding winter storms. A heavy mudslide, experts said, could reverse decades of conservation efforts by inundating the last outposts for such federally protected species as the Santa Ana sucker fish and Southern California m
Read more