The buck stops… um…
How did this happen? Is this dumping by contractors or drug den encampments? Either way we didn’t vote for this.

This area is especially concerning because when there is a lot of rain, the area floods and trash runs into the adjacent stream which feeds into the Alewife Brook reservoir. This is a significant environmental concern.

We’ve inspected this location and it is on private property not maintained by the City of Cambridge and no additional action will be taken. Tell us how we're doing by completing a short survey at www.surveymonkey.com/r/CambServiceRequests

There are no code violations? MBTA property? Private firm contracted with government?

We get it, it’s not technically Cambridge’s responsibility. But the MBTA clearly isn’t going to deal with it. As I’m sure you know, hundreds of people walk by this every day. Can Cambridge take the lead on getting this done? Seeing this unaddressed for months and years causes people to lose faith in the government. It’s very sad that we can’t work together as various governments and do something simple like pick up trash. There was a great event on the WCG Greenway today where residents picked up the trash. That is probably DCR’s or Watertown/Cambridge’s responsibility but residents are clearly willing to take that on. Maybe Cambridge can offer a dumpster and some safety equipment and residents can provide the labor? It’s so frustrating to need to organize residents around something as simple as picking up trash. Please help. We’re not asking a lot.

This is horrific. Obviously there’s some delicate, sensitive and endemic situation going on that Cambridge is not liaising with their MBTA partners to remediate this apocalyptic mess. There’s probably a none too subtle message in City Hall not to bring this to Mayor Simmons.

This looks like a recurrent drug camp and it’s a conscious strategy up and down the political structure to have an out of the way natural space suffer from societal failings (neglecting our sick addicts) to keep them out of more populated spaces.

There’s a moral and philosophical bankruptcy at the core of the so-called Progressives who have been co-opted stem to stern.

Public Works - AF (Off Hours) assigned this issue to Public Works - Compliance

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Thank you for reporting your compliance concern to City of Cambridge via SeeClickFix. Staff will be investigating this issue further. Kevin Richardson, Compliance Officer, Cambridge Public Works - krichardson@cambridgema.gov / 617-349-4843.

Thank you for reporting this issue to the City of Cambridge. Unfortunately, the City is not responsible for addressing issues on MBTA property, but we've shared this report with the MBTA and asked them to address.

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