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...council discussed, but did not take action, on, a complaint from Alfred E. Vellucci that small shopkeepers have been shocked to a receive bills for $225 in fees for city garbage collection since June of 1986. Richard Rossi, assistant city manager and director of the public work department (DPW), said city law first imposed the charge of $25 per month in 1955, although collection has been sporadically enforced...
Vellucci further complained that the DPW keep Harvard Square far cleaner than East Cambridge, asking whether "John Harvard is somehow better" than his constituents...
Instead, the DPW suggests that Cambridge look at alternative proposals before taking the dramatic step of redirecting the drainage pipes...
...proposed bill will take time to construct, will be somewhat costly, and will involve destruction to the roadway," said Scott L. Pickard, a spokesman at DPW...
...such alternative, said Pickard, is the use of a salt-substitute for highways. The DPW is currently testing for the first time this winter, a "pre-mix" of four parts sodium-chloride and one part calcium-chloride...