Report on Clean Seattle Initiative
Cleanup: West Seattle
Date of Cleanup: July 17, 2004
Departments: Seattle Parks and Recreation, Department of Neighborhoods, Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle City Light, Seattle Public Utilities Community Services Division
Mayor Nickels lead more than 25 Neighborhood volunteers, along with the services of Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle Parks and Recreation, Seattle City Light, Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and SPU Community Services Division to clean up West Seattle Junction, Saturday, July 17th.
Mayor Nickels also planted a tree in front of the new West Seattle neighborhood service center.
Clean & Green Seattle partnered with Kay Knapton, Executive Director, West Seattle Junction Association; Patti Mullen, Executive Director, West Seattle Chamber of Commerce; Denise Lathrop, President, Friends of the Junction; Mary Ellen Cunningham, Executive Director, Megawatt; Marcia Long, Washington Mutual Bank; and Chris Corsi, Morgan Junction Starbucks. The partners got involved with litter pick-ups, street cleaning, street light repairs, and weeding at Gateway Park.
Mayor Nickels also participated by acknowledging the hard work of the local area merchants in transforming the West Seattle Junction as a strong and vibrant community.
Cleanup Activities:
- 5 signs were replaced, 6 were cleaned.
- 24 curbs were repainted
- 13 sidewalk shims and street/sidewalk repairs were made using 1.5 tons of asphalt.
- 10 curb miles were swept
- Three traffic islands were sodded and cleaned & 8 Curb bulbs were cleaned and barked.
- 113 trees on California were pruned and minor pruning was performed on same.
- 24 trees were pruned on Alaska bwtn. Fauntleroy and 42nd.
- The day of the event we had three Urban Forestry crew members out to coordinate pruning of 5 trees on the W/s of Alaska S. of Alaska and 6 new trees were planted at the event.
- Urban Forestry provided 5 yards of wood chips for the community to use in a landscaped area.
- 150 lights repaired
- 90 paintouts
- 341 graffiti tags removed
- Replaced 5 older litter cans with 6 new litter cans in Parking lot in junction.
- Collected over 3800 pounds (or 250+ bags) of litter/weeds/grasses from approximately (8) acres – that included 42nd & Alaska lot, vegetated areas on 44th SW between Edmunds & Alaska Streets, parking lots on 44th SW between Edmunds & Oregon Streets, the alley rockery between Alaska & Oregon Streets and its’ adjoining parking lot & vegetated areas, the triangle at Alaska & Fauntleroy, and the banked area at the West Seattle Statues entering West Seattle.
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