Messes in Mill Creek Canyon

Thank you for your very informative article (“Cleaning up Mill Creek Canyon to cost city as much as $800,000,” Nov. 20) on the current efforts to clean up the homeless encampments and dumped trash from lazy Kent citizens in the Mill Creek Canyon.

You ended your article with a very important message that, if the Kent Police and Kent Parks Department don’t change the way they do things, that we will be soon spending another $500,000 to clean it all over again.

I found (on Dec. 2) another homeless encampment in an area that Clean Harbors cleaned first. It had been there for some time because they had accumulated five shopping carts there, a wood cabinet and other stuff, and were starting to dump trash down the canyon wall again. But in the time that it took to accumulate that many shopping carts, the Kent Police and Kent Parks Department were not doing their job because they were totally unaware of it. So Clean Harbors is going back to clean that mess and it will cost us about $3,000 more.

It’s just so frustrating for Kent citizens to know what needs to be done — to even tell those responsible what needs to be done — and then see them just on their butts in their police cars or behind their office desks and do nothing again.

How do we get them to start stepping up and become proactive so that messes are kept small?

Tim Brown, Kent


Talk to us

Please share your story tips by emailing editor@kentreporter.com.

To share your opinion for publication, submit a letter through our website https://www.kentreporter.com/submit-letter/. Include your name, address and daytime phone number. (We’ll only publish your name and hometown.) Please keep letters to 300 words or less.

More in Letters to the Editor

Email editor@kentreporter.com
For every vote to count, Kent needs district-based elections | Guest column

By Mónica Mendoza-Castrejón Guest Column If you’re a community member here in… Continue reading

Email editor@kentreporter.com
Letters: Support King County Charter Amendment

Support King County Charter Amendment As a lifelong resident of King County,… Continue reading

Messes in Mill Creek Canyon

Thank you for your very informative article (“Cleaning up Mill Creek Canyon… Continue reading

Priced out of our homes

Priced out of our homes In the middle of everything that is… Continue reading

Kent School Board addresses death of George Floyd

The recent death of Mr. George Floyd at the hands of a… Continue reading

Some good advice in the fight against infection

School closings, sports event cancellations, food hoarding. … We live in a… Continue reading

City should focus on the real problem, a health crisis

It is time for the city officials of Kent to stop their… Continue reading

How much effect will virus have?

The situation regarding King County’s acquisition of the Econo Lodge in Kent… Continue reading

Coronavirus: County made hasty choice in Kent as a quarantine city
Coronavirus: County made hasty choice in Kent as a quarantine city

Like many Kent residents, I was blindsided when I heard, late Wednesday… Continue reading