Report on Clean Seattle Initiative

Cleanup: Othello Park and Surrounding Neighborhoods

Date of Cleanup: March 6, 2002

Target Area: M.L. King Jr Way Street to Rainier Avenue South between South Kenyon Street to S. Holly Street

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

Cleanup Activities:

• Collected 73 bags of litter and removed litter and trash (1,100 pounds) from 7.9 miles of streets
  
  
• Cleaned one illegal dump site, removing 2,000 pounds of debris and cleaning another two acres of public open space
  
  
• Installed 155 cubic yards of wood chips for children's play area (removed 100 cubic yards of older material)
  
  
• Repainted existing comfort station with more than 4,000 square feet of paint and removed 300 square feet of graffiti on park benches and other equipment
  
  
• Removed over 135 graffiti tags and stickers from city signs, poles and traffic control boxes in the greater Othello Park neighborhood
  
  
• Planted 342 flowers and two trees as part of beautification effort in the park
  
  
• Swept more than 14 curb miles of residential streets, removing 12 cubic yards of debris from these streets
  
  
• Replaced or repaired 15 traffic signs that had chipped paint or were damaged; repainted curbs
  
  
• Cleaned, clipped and maintained more than 100 street trees (and tree pits) in the neighborhood between Rainier Avenue S. and ML King Jr. Way S
  
  
• Placed more than 10 tons of asphalt grindings on neighborhood streets to smooth out roadway shoulders between South Kenyon and South Othello Streets
  
  
• Pothole Rangers used more than 3 tons of asphalt to repair potholes and to install 3 large asphalt shims
  
  
• Repaired or provided preventive maintenance for 38 street lights in the immediate neighborhood to restore lighting to optimal levels
  
  
• Installed a new curb parking space and sign for Seattle Police Department vehicles that wish to take a break at the park
  
  
• Repainted the lines on two existing basketball courts
  
  
• Created tree wells and added mulch to more than 30 street trees and removed ivy from 20 trees
  
  
• Pumped out and removed debris from 20 catch basins, cleaned 28 sewer inlets and over 150 feet of ditch lines

Volunteer Activity

• Youth from SPU's Earth Service Corps stenciled 90 drains with our message, "Dump No Waste, Drains To Lake"
  
  
• Preschoolers from local daycare planted flowers at Othello Park

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• Removed from, Martin Luther King a broken, abandoned telephone booth that was an eyesore for the community for several years
  
  
• Removed 2 pairs of sneakers from wires (another eye-sore in the community)
  
  
• Removed overgrown laurel hedges to make the area cleaner and safer (citizen requested this be done.)

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