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Fri, 07/25/2008 - 9:15am — emmettoconnell

Oly Ost in the morning:

This morning whilst walking my dog around Lion's park, I noticed the sprinklers were going. It get's worse: most of their projectile landed squarely under the trees landing in areas where not only was nothing growing, but where nothing was intended to grow--covered in bark.

Is the sum total of that waste enough to save someone's job?

That's the kind of poor planning and lack of foresight (not to mention carelessness) that drives me nuts.

On the other hand, I think I make perfectly rational decisions regarding watering my lawn in the morning. Please comment over there.

 

Comments

Fri, 07/25/2008 - 9:57am — luvdwntwn

And the trees dont need

And the trees dont need watering? They are growing too!
Fri, 07/25/2008 - 12:44pm — gshafer5571

Notify the City

I think you should KINDLY notify the city of this. Maybe the last time they checked the sprinklers they were working properly. I do not think that the city purposly placed the sprinklers to water the trees. Things malfunction and need repairs now. Do you realize how many parks and public places the city has sprinklers at? To get to every one more then probably once or maybe even twice during the sprinkler season would be highly impractical. They rely on us to help them with things like that.
Fri, 07/25/2008 - 9:44pm — Matthew Green

Thank you, gshafer5571

Exactly. Just kindly notify the city.

In my time on the council, I was repeatedly amazed at how people would take something as minor as a possibly misdirected sprinkler as proof that "THE CITY IS INCOMPENTENT AND EVIL!"  Usually with no information and no attempt to get any.

Don't even get me started on the woman who screamed (via email) that the city was running a parking ticket scam, and she would never come downtown again, because she got a ticket when she parked at a 75 minute meter.  (Note: Olympia does not have 75 minute meters.)

Matthew