Report on Clean Seattle Initiative Cleanup:
Judkins Area Cleanup

Date of Cleanup:
April 26th (city crews) and 27th (volunteers)

Target Area:
South Jackson and South Judkins, between 20th and Martin Luther King

Departments:
Parks, DON, Seattle Transportation, City Light, Seattle
Public Utilities, DCLU, Arts Commission

Cleanup Activities:
• Swept 34 lane miles of residential streets
• Mowed 5 miles of overgrowth with mechanical mower and performed associated hand cutting
• Collected 279 bags of litter and removed 4185 pounds of litter and trash from 10.2 miles of streets
• Cleaned 4 illegal dumps, removing 8,600 pounds of debris and cleaning another 8 acres of public open space
• Removed 127 graffiti tags from city lights, poles, signal control boxes and signs
• Patched 3 potholes using ½ ton of asphalt
• Repaved 20' by 80' patch of asphalt street where the street had settled 3'
• Mowed and trimmed 15 acres of Park and DON property
• Edged 10,722 feet of side walks/path ways
• Repaired or replaced 64 street lights
• Pressure washed 4500 square feet of hard surface
• Pruned 15 large trees
• Installed 12 tree wells
• Pruned 20 large shrubs
• Trimmed 600 feet of shrub beds
• Cleaned 4 planter boxes
• Pressure washed spray feature
• Pressure washed 14 picnic tables
• Replaced or painted 15 cans and lids
• Replaced knocked down home run fence at 2 ball fields
• Replaced 225 feet of rotting barrier logs with 6 large rocks to prevent illegal parking
• Installed 2 large rocks at entry to prevent tire ruts in parking strip
• Replaced approximately 500 square feet of asphalt.
• Replaced electric hand dryer in South Comfort Station Women's room.
• Removed graffiti over lights on North Comfort Station and performed a complete graffiti sweep of the entire park.
• Repaired roll-up door on North Shelter House.
• Replaced paper towel and toilet paper holders in Comfort Stations.
• Striped lines in South Parking Lot.
• Painted "water spray towers", garbage can lids ad comfort station doors.
• Move and re-install 6 trash can receptacles and their footings.
• Clean up landscaped area behind new backstop, fill ruts and remove construction debris.
• Rake and clear area around bench on East side of the park.
• Replace old plastic bench material with new wood material.
• Placed 2 small concrete slabs, moved and installed onto the slabs a bike rack previously located at the North field.
• Rodded 600' of sewer line (removing roots, and other possible blockages)
• Cleaned and inspected 25 inlets and related catch basins
• Work to be done: Pump 6 catch basins
• Maintained 3 traffic signs and painted 3 curbs
• Pruned 42 street trees
• Barked tree pits on Jackson Street and worked with Parks on weeding and planting of median on Judkins Street

Miscellaneous
• 7 illegal signs removed from power poles
• 6 pairs of shoes removed from lines
• 5 properties have had initial inspections conducted by DCLU staff and warnings have been sent to the owners advising them that the properties have code violations.
• 3 other three properties will be inspected this week and staff will follow a path similar to that described for the other five properties.

Volunteer Activity
• Nearly 100 volunteers came together to cleanup Judkins Park including: 1
• 9 volunteers from CityYear who participated in litter pickup efforts, raking grass, weeding, barking, and planting activities
• 10 members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority joined in weeding, barking and planting to beautify the park
• 10 students from Garfield Teen Center assisted the Mayor with weeding, barking and planting the traffic circle and other landscaped areas of the park
• 7 volunteers from Yesler Terrace assisted in weeding, barking, and planting the traffic circle with the mayor, and continued to work in the park, weeding landscaped areas
• 7 volunteers from the community came out to help cleanup the park in the community
• Removed a total of 165 bags of grass/edgings from the park
• Planted 100 shrubs and flowers S
• pread 15 cubic yards of bark
• Collected 25 bags of trash

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