A perpetually green pool and questionable Code Enforcement

Editor, I’ve been having a problem for well over five years. A neighbor of mine totally neglects his back yard, and his pool is a swamp of disgusting green.

Three years ago I called the city. Nothing. A year later I went in person and showed photos. They promised they’d look into it. Nothing.

Then in June of 2017, all of us city people got a pamphlet in our monthly water bills. It was a list of Code Enforcement’s top ten code violations. And there it was, listed as number nine — green pools — stating it is an imminent danger to health and public safety.

So I mailed in a form that came with it and once again reported it. Here comes June 2018 — still nothing.

Now I see an article on the front page of the Recorder on 8/29/18 that states we have a confirmed case of West Nile Virus in Porterville. It warned about the dangers of mosquitoes, and Lord forbid if a child wandered in that back yard and fell in they would never find them, and there are children all around here.

I also see the Code Enforcement vehicles drive by home often.

So my question is this — why did the City of Porterville make a big deal out of enforcing broken codes by wasting paper and sending us this list of code violations if they don’t do anything about it?

I say that if the city doesn’t get its act together then shame on them!

C. Castruita Porterville