Environmental Services in El Paso

One of the best run departments in the City of El Paso (if not the best) is Ellen Smyth's Environmental Services. Among all the things that they do (collect garbage and recycling as well as promote and enhance "a clean and healthy environment"), they make sure that folks are in compliance with those codes that have to do with keeping a neat yard and sidewalk, disposing of garbage correctly, following zoning restrictions, maintaining walls and fences and so forth.

That is why it is surprising that some disgruntled neighbor in or around Dyer Street felt it necessary to counterfeit compliance notices and mail it to some of his or her neighbors. Why go to the time and expense when a call to 774-4500 will do the trick? Even easier for those online is to fill out the General Request Form of Environmental Services. (I would give the form a new name such as Compliance Form or something like that. There is nothing about General Request that tells me that is where I should click to report a compliance issue.) Complaints are kept confidential and investigations with results follow quickly.