A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about the condition of the tops of the newly rebuilt seasoning shakers along the Longfellow Bridge:
Lovely seagull poop on all 4 towers of the beautiful Longfellow bridge.
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complainant
By Luke Warm
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 2:58pm
needs to stfu. seagull shit is magic good luck
Jurisdiction Fallacy
By John Costello
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:05pm
Attention confused citizen, Call Charlie Baker, Not Marty on this.
PS - Not that anything can be done about this, but if you are going to file a lunatic complaint, at least you should know where and who to file it too.
Well there is SOMETHING that can be done
By Gary C
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:21pm
You are right that it's not a Boston thing, but they could put up those prickly metal spike things that do a nice job of keeping birds off ledges and such.
SOMETHING will be done
By John Costello
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:23pm
Gawd gonna make it rain.
I've seen plenty of pigeons
By anon
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:39pm
I've seen plenty of pigeons walk right through those.
No, you should call...
By Lisfnord
Fri, 10/05/2018 - 8:32am
A real estate agent. And move somewhere like Kansas that won't have gulls.
Simple...
By anon
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:37pm
Paint the bridge white, whitewash, whatever
Or flip that around, we could
By baustin
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 4:39pm
Or flip that around, we could also feed the gulls bridge-colored fish. . . I'm just trying to think outside the box. Not really working for me today.
A serious question
By Waquiot
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:41pm
I know someone here will know.
Would the bird droppings actually damage the structures? Or is this an aesthetic issue?
Bird guano is acidic
By roadman
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:46pm
So, if left for a long period of time, it could damage the structure.
However, I suspect the next round of rain will wash everything away before that happens.
They can do a lot of damage
By anon
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:53pm
Bird poop has a lot of ammonia and salt in it - particularly fish eating bird poop - which combines with rainwater to form compounds that can eat concrete and structural steel (including that inside the shakers).
This was a factor in the bridge collapse in Minnesota.
https://www.hawkeye.ca/pest-bird-pigeon/60-toronto...
Actually, although corrosion and paint failure
By roadman
Thu, 10/04/2018 - 4:29pm
on the I-35W bridge that could be attributed to bird guano was detected on recovered portions of the structure after the collapse, the NTSB determined that neither the corrosion nor the paint loss were factors in the collapse. Rather, the collapse was attributed to failure to do proper load analysis before undertaking both the construction work underway at the time and prior construction work, the failure of MNDot to take adequate remedial action to address defeciencies - including bowing gusset plates - identified in a 2003 inspection report, and the placement of heavy construction materials on the bridge itself without proper analysis beforehand.
Thanks to both of you
By Waquiot
Fri, 10/05/2018 - 9:31am
Steel if figured, but I was spacing on concrete corrosion.
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