Encouraged by recent city progress to control speeding, illegal activities and dumping in the neighborhood by increasing police patrols, installing signs and cleaning the area, residents have organized to ensure continued success. They have formed a Neighborhood Watch program and are planning beautification projects that they hope will stop illegal dumping of trash, construction material and tree trimmings. Their primary target is a 30-foot gully near the Waimanalo entrance to the Norfolk Pines subdivision, which the city cleaned twice since neighbors complained about problems last August. The site is ideal for dumping.
Drivers can pull off the road, back up to the gully and discard their trash.
We're trying to plug the window. Two months after the city cleaned the gully, the area became half filled with trash, Baker said. While the city was willing to clean the area again, neighbors decided they needed to find a way to discourage dumpers. Their solution was to build a berm near the gully, construct a fence in front of the berm and landscape the area. The city has built a berm that's about 100 foot long in front of the gully, on the mauka side of the road.