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Once green hurried sodding up things in time for Flag Day before picture
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Given multiple dimes dropped Quincy Quarry News’ way to complain about suspect quality control on the multi-million renovation of Merrymount Park by city officials, Quincy Quarry dispatched its fabled Photo Recon Teams SIx to do its thing.
The Quarry also reached out to its landscaping adviser Frederick “Cinco” Law Olmstead V for his thoughts about what all has fallen short of the mark at Merrymount Park.
The most obvious problem is a massive expanse of desiccated sod around the recently erected pavilion on Pageant Field where previously was a baseball diamond.
The originally green sod was laid at the last minute and was thus rushed to be in place for Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s annual Flag Day fireworks gala as well as often featuring a nearby wildfire.
A desiccated sod after photo
A Quincy Quarry Photo Recon Team Six image
Additional events then followed upon what was at least fragile fresh sod.
Cinco Olmstead accordingly offered up a three-part theory for the sorry condition of the sod at this point.
For starers, the likelihood that whoever laid the sod sodded the job.
Then allowing considerable foot traffic on it before the sod had taken root only made things worse.
And for the third strike, considerable rainfll this summer notwithstanding, hosing down the sod after it was laid on the few days rainfall was not sufficient was insufficient, if not also inexcusably remiss.
At this point Cinco is thus left to wonder if the desiccated sod will be replaced, the dead zone instead cheaply hydoseeded or just left to go to grassy weeds.
Other problems found included multiple sightings of newly planted trees struggling.
Future kindling or mulch?
Conjoined exclusive Quincy Quarry Photo Recon Team Six images
Granted, while nowhere near the level of mortality of the all but failed tree plantings along most of Washington Street, seeing these struggling trees was still disconcerting, especially as the trees were all but next to the Department of Natural Resources headquarters and corporation yard as well as that — again — it has been a rainy summer.
A dead tree and were all can see it
Quincy Quarry Photo Recon Team Six image
In fact, a near record setting rainy summer.
Further troubling was Cinco’s finding the remains of a tall but now dead tree still standing upright within the fence of the Natural Resources’ Corporation yard.
On top of the obvious head scratching angle, this dead tree stands perilously close to as well as over the parking area for all manner of expensive City of Quincy vehicles.
These vehicle include mostly parked emergency response vehicles and thus potentially but a nor’easter away from suffering this tree crashing down upon at least one of these expensive city rides.
Especially those vehicles which are equipped for respond to primarily natural disaster sorts of emergencies.
Who all should be taken out behind the Natural Resources Department’s wood pile this time?
A Quincy Quarry News file photo
Plus, one would think that some Natural Resources personnel would cut down this dangerous dead tree for repurposing as firewood.
Further, there was a troubling as well as clear lapse in security found by Quincy Quarry News’ Photo Recon Team Six: the door to a full storage room was wide open..
Then again, it is Quincy Quarry’s recollection that the City of Quincy Natural Resources Department has its own grill within its compound as well as perhaps even the full ESPN Sports package for its break room and thus why bother with securing this City of Quincy equipment.
Open storage room door, left; Looking in the open door — need a grill and/or some tools? right
Conjoined exclusive Quincy Quarry Photo Recon Team Six images
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Quality problem, bad plants. Worse. Was working out there few days ago, 2 dog walkers had 3 dogs unleashed and one crapped on the field. They watched and shrugged it off. So, that field is loaded with dog poo for sure. Watch where you step
Johnson,
Was one of the dog walkers with a dog off leash and so in violation of the local leash law the City of Quincy’s Planning Director?
3 were off the leash. All of them. The walkers looked at it, and laughed. Then walked on their lazy way. Maybe field cameras may help. I just workout there. We need poo police.
Johnson,
A Poo Patrol — genius! Surely former Quincy Police Chief Keenan’s wife would love to see him out of the house and working a new side hustle.
Get the DPW doing the poo pickup. They will be pissed, 1) They’ll have to work, 2) It’s poo. The Chief could be a good supervisor to make sure they work. They’ll have it out for any irresponsible dog walkers and so end this crap.
Why don’t they go to the dog park — it certainly cost the taxpayers enough money?
Asterisk,
Why not use Quincy’s official dog park?
For one thing, it is not conveniently located.
And for another, dog parks are often not safe places for dogs given owners with ill-trained and thus unruly dogs.
Ah. What a great use of taxpayer dollars. Not!
Technically, most of the dog park was paid for via a grant from a private fund. Taxpayers instead got stuck with an insane bill for building the dedicated and expense access road as Kochsters failed to lock down an agreement in principle agreement with Avalon for egress through its complex of apartments and which only needed a short road built on flat ground to access the dog park.