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Open Letter To East Bay Municipal Utility District

by Lynda Carson (tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com)
The practices of the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) are unreasonable, and unfair to the residents of Oakland!
Open Letter To East Bay Municipal Utility District


To: East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD)

EBMUD Administration
375 11th Street
Oakland, CA 9607

From: Lynda Carson
Oakland, CA
tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com


OPEN LETTER TO EBMUD - March 20, 2018


Dear Board Members and EBMUD Administration

My name is Lynda Carson, and I reside in Oakland near 8th Avenue and East 19th St.

EBMUD has had an ongoing water improvement project happening in this neighborhood for more than two months.


In Brief: EBMUD crews have been tearing up the streets with trenches and large holes, over and over again on the same streets.


I reside between 8th Avenue and 9th Avenue on East 19th Street, in a 21 unit residential building. Earlier today an EBMUD crew turned off the water to our building for a number of hours. The residents, including a fellow in a wheel chair, some mothers & little children, and some elderly residents in their 60s did not receive a notice in advance that the water would be cut off today.

I can only assume, that EBMUD is used to treating their customers this way, and could care less.


How EBMUD Operates


On the corners of 8th Avenue and East 19th Street, for over 2 months the crews working for EBMUD have left much of their construction materials sitting wide open on the dirt ground. Materials that people may trip over. This stuff should be contained in a large metal container with doors. At times the materials include large blue elbow joints for pipes and other fittings, bags of concrete sitting on the ground, buckets or attachments from back hole tractors & other equipment, and a lot of other materials and debris left on the ground by EBMUD crews. The corners of 8th Avenue and E. 19th St., have become a dumping ground for EBMUD for over 2 months.

Nearby along 8th Avenue between E. 19th St., and E. 20th St., there are long blue water pipes sitting on the street where people used to park their cars. We have a parking problem as it is in this neighborhood, and EBMUD has made the problem much worse for the past few months by grabbing our much needed parking spaces for its own use.


EBMUD Leaves Heavy Equipment On The Streets At Night


Making matters worse, the crews of EBMUD are too lazy to drive their construction vehicles back to their work yard at the end of the work day.

EBMUD crews leave their back hole tractors, steam rollers, and other types of construction vehicles, and heavy equipment parked on the streets in this neighborhood. This has gone on for over 2 months now. Taking up our precious parking spaces in front of residential apartment buildings, homes and multi-family unit buildings, is unreasonable and a nuisance.

This also occurs on the weekends. Sometimes the tractors, vehicles/heavy equipment of EBMUD remains parked in the same spot on the street taking up precious parking spaces for 2 or 3 days at a time. Meanwhile, the EBMUD crews are gone for the weekends.

EBMUD work crews are too lazy to drag their equipment back to the work yard at EBMUD property every day, and the people in this neighborhood are lacking in parking spaces as a direct result.

I can only wonder if EBMUD crews and EBMUD management would get away with treating the wealthy people in Piedmont the same way, by leaving their heavy equipment, tractors, steam rollers and uncontained construction materials and debris laying about on the streets or grass in front of the multi-million dollar mansions for months at a time?

At times, the EBMUD crews block the streets, and when it rains, they use a tent roof cover on top of some long metal legs for the welders to work under. This happens in the middle of the street blocking traffic. I can only assume that it never occurred to the EBMUD crews and management that the welders could do their job without blocking the streets, or traffic in this neighborhood.

Additionally, with all the dump trucks blocking the streets as they idle away just sitting there at times, and all the noise from the jack hammers, including saws cutting into the black top, at times the noise levels are extreme at times. Especially, early in the morning, and when they keep coming back to the same streets over and over, to tear them up again.

The practices of EBMUD are unreasonable, and a nuisance to the residents of Oakland.

Sincerely,

Lynda Carson
Oakland, CA
tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com

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