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James W Baum 1225 Rivergate Drive Lodi, California 95240 TEL: (209)369-1314 FAX: (209)369-7567 June 7,2001 Chairman Dario Marenco Board of Supervisors 222 E. Weber Courthouse Room 701 Stockton,Calif.95202 Enclosed are several pictures taken on May'30,,2001. Let me explain what they represent. I operate two mobilehome parks in the City of Lodi. Some time ago I had extensive street maintenance done in bothparks'. Soon after we,got the work done I noticed stains appearing on the streets in bath parks. My first reaction was to tell my resident managers in bath parks to figure out which residents, or,guests, had cars leaking oil and to put a stop to those cars being operated in,the parks. To make a long story after my people played,detective we found out it was the garbage trucks causing the p #oblems. Hastruct6d,my resident managers to talk with the garbage company and,see t it stopped. To my "wledge ehe resident managers talked with the garbage people but without success. (In one instance the garbage people werequite rude.) I then asked,my property supervisor,to see what she could do, and she met with assurances that it wouldn't ha n again - promises which were broken almost immediately.. ch week the streets l ° ked worse,and worse. Finally, about a month ago, I took over the tier myself, and talked to Alex Osigovera, the district manager, for Waste Management, the mpany t'the City of ` has giv excl `ve rights to colleet garbage. I met with him at n and D a obilehome Park .at,2 . May 17 and showed him the problem.`He as t _ ea d his words were"I a ed'•` at what he saw. He had his firm powerwash tii6,streets at my Almond Drive Park on.approximately May 22, as he promised. On May 30 I waited in the park to watch the garbage operation for myself. The pictures enclosed are the stains left'on the streets where the garbage truck leaked liquid garbage all through the park.. After the truck left you could still:smell the odor of garbage from the liquid the streets, then looked at the streets near my home and found very similar'stains on Rivergate Drive. I assume, they are also garbage thathas leaked from the garbage truck. "Where else in Lodi are they spillingthis hazardous waste? Now, the garbage company has again had my streets power washed, but this does not solve the 'Problem. They have stated they will put y k'first on the route so the truck will be empty when it travels through my park,but this only solves my problem,not the bigger health problem aughout the city. They stated that one of my residents must be putting lots of liquid in their can. This simply is not the answer because the is start at space 1, which is first stop the . VE D JUN Celebrating Over 30 Years in the M6bilehome Industry BOARD OF S'UPERVISOR8