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Old 04-17-2021, 02:36 PM
 
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My thought is city has so many other priorities so not much will happen.

Let me expand... if you home is burglarized or your car broken into... OPD directs you to file online report...

I've called 911 to report in progress dump truck dumping into creek and was scolded by dispatch and told to call public works on Monday...

I'm 4th generation Oakland and can't explain it...
No need to explain. It's a lost cause think about it too much and it will drive you crazy.
The bureaucracy of government, redtape and the system that feeds itself will not take care of it anyway.
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Old 04-18-2021, 11:11 PM
 
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Best advice offered...

Did a year and a half attending city council meetings and learned how business is done... too controversial it gets postponed and after a few times hardly anyone shows up and motion carried...
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Old 04-22-2021, 09:43 AM
 
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I use both.
I am ok with not hearing noise or making any.

Tall weeds are not a batteries friend so I don’t use electricity for that.
Simple deck and path cleaning electrical works just fine for me.

The funny thing is is that at our place up north we use electric and not here in the Bay Area.

So, does this mean my burn piles are persona non grata here .
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Old 04-22-2021, 04:40 PM
 
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Brother has a farm in Contra Costa... he had some blighted/diseased trees which required burning.

Burn followed to letter... proscribed burn piles and conditions, proper equipment and notifications provided... even bulldozer at the ready.

Still did not prevent dozens of 911 calls, mostly from a new tract of 1.5-2m homes... even a helicopter response.

Just life in the SF Bay Area these days.
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Old 04-23-2021, 02:36 PM
 
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Brother has a farm in Contra Costa... he had some blighted/diseased trees which required burning.

Burn followed to letter... proscribed burn piles and conditions, proper equipment and notifications provided... even bulldozer at the ready.

Still did not prevent dozens of 911 calls, mostly from a new tract of 1.5-2m homes... even a helicopter response.

Just life in the SF Bay Area these days.
I remember in SF (1960's) we all had garbage cans in our yards to burn trash.
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Old 04-23-2021, 06:27 PM
 
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Yep... grade school attended had incinerator... it just gobbled school waste... the entire school had one residential garbage can but even back then glass, aluminum and paper recycled... which was not the norm.
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Old 04-23-2021, 06:56 PM
 
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Yep... grade school attended had incinerator... it just gobbled school waste... the entire school had one residential garbage can but even back then glass, aluminum and paper recycled... which was not the norm.
I do not remember anything about recycling in the 60's or 70's. No laws like today whatsoever.
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Old 04-23-2021, 07:18 PM
 
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I do not remember anything about recycling in the 60's or 70's. No laws like today whatsoever.
School had non stop paper drives with a container always onsite.

Also had a deal with glass company Owens Illinois to buy glass bottles sorted by size and color... 1 cent per pound... plus aluminum cans.

The PTA was very involved and all the money raised went to school sports.

Paper Drives were very common for decades... sometimes competing with others like scouts or Boys and Girls Club.

Of course this was before any laws as it was free enterprise.

The incinerator was milk cartons, lunch bags and food scraps...

Hayward CA and Oakland Ca
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Old 04-23-2021, 07:30 PM
 
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School had non stop paper drives with a container always onsite.

Also had a deal with glass company Owens Illinois to buy glass bottles sorted by size and color... 1 cent per pound... plus aluminum cans.

The PTA was very involved and all the money raised went to school sports.

Paper Drives were very common for decades... sometimes competing with others like scouts or Boys and Girls Club.

Of course this was before any laws as it was free enterprise.

The incinerator was milk cartons, lunch bags and food scraps...

Hayward CA and Oakland Ca
What year was this?
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Old 04-23-2021, 11:34 PM
 
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Late 60's Hayward and 70's Oakland.

Dad was PTA president in Hayward and Booster in Oakland... so these things were family affairs as labor all donated.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...405-story.html

Another way to put is ahead of the curve... also with first Earth Day, SOAR and adopt a creek which I still continue.

I just think fire surpression in California trump's a gallon of gas max used whacking weeds and brush on the Oakland Hillsides...
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