DANIEL TYLER GOODEN / L’Observateur / July 24, 2000

VACHERIE – C & R House Builders’ advertisements on various telephone poles around St. James Parish is the subject of complaint by a St. Rose group.Swamp Eyes, a group of volunteers who spend their time cleaning up litter and dumped trash from the swamps and roadsides in local parishes, sent a letter to St. James Councilman Timothy Roussel. Roussel read the letter tothe council Wednesday, and it stated that the amount of illegal littering on public property by C & R is appalling. The signs, posted high on poles aroundthe parish, are on public property, thus violating littering laws.

Roussel advised that C & R be called and asked to remove the signs. If theydon’t do it, “then we’ll send the sheriff to deal with it,” he said.

Roussel asked Sheriff Willy Martin Jr. if he could instruct his deputies to notethe locations of the signs as they are patrolling the parish. Martin said hewould.

Hymel mentioned that if C & R doesn’t remove the signs parish workers could do it, charging C & R for the time spent.

Safety concerns were raised as to having signs on the utilities poles. Outsideof getting in the way of utilities workers, metal nails and other hanging pose the possibility of grounding a worker on the pole. If grounded, the worker isdanger of electrocution.

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