In every edition of the Ewing Observer, Mayor Bert Steinmann answers readers’ questions.
I own both a home and a business in Ewing. Several times a month, I find that someone has dumped construction debris or other junk on my property. I have installed cameras at my business and can sometimes find footage showing a van or pickup truck stop and unload, but I can not make out license plates or faces. What can be done about people who dump garbage in front of my property?
Also, there is another problem regarding the trash. My business is on Stokes Avenue, near the waste transfer site. Garbage trucks returning from a days work often spew plastic bags, styrofoam containers, paper and other debris as they race around the corner. This just creates more trash for me to pick up. Can anything be done to remedy this situation?
—Michael Greco
If you are a Ewing Township resident and you are not a contractor you can use the Scotch Road facility, just continue to show your Driver’s License to verify your residency in Ewing.
In regards to the dumping I will ask our police and code enforcement staff to reach out to you to directly. In addition, I will also ask our technology staff to review your camera set up and see if there are any improvements they can suggest.
As for the trash that you indicated is strewn all over the corner area, I have already directed my public works superintendent to meet with the staff of Central Jersey Waste.
He reports that Central Jersey Waste has a supervisor who picks up the area of debris that may come from their trucks or their area daily.
If you have a question for the mayor for next month’s edition, submit it by emailing bsanservino@mercerspace.com or by going to mercerspace.com and searching for “Ask the Mayor.” You must be a Ewing resident.
