The Mayor's War on Rats!

[bobobb.livejournal.com]

Apparently my house wasn't the only one to be hit by rats last year....and now the mayor has responded with a rather cool initiative.

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/somerville/2013/11/somerville_mayor_declares_war_on_rats.html

"The city is preparing a new program to offer free rodent control for homeowners and aims to launch a uniform residential trash barrel program to help keep rats from eating out of trash cans."

Also apparently looking into rat birth control...

Comments

[daviscubed.livejournal.com]

Way out here in Medford we have uniform trash & recycling barrels. The trash barrels are smaller than the recycling barrels, which I think are the same size as Somerville's. Recycling comes every two weeks, trash every week. I think if you want more barrels you have to buy them, but it's something I've never came close to needing. If we were a family of four, we'd probably need another barrel, I guess.

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

Mayor Curtatone said at tonight's Ward 5 resistat meeting the Somerville uniform trash bins would be a little smaller than the recycling bins, he didn't specify a size.