DC Complains As City Overrun With Rats

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DC complains as city overrun with rats

By Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, August 18, 2022:

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The infestation of rats in Washington, D.C., neighborhoods has community members and government agencies spinning their wheels, but officials at D.C. Health say working together can end the crisis once and for all.

Over 30 community members gathered at Number Nine, a bar in Logan Circle, on Thursday to discuss the infestation with Gerard Brown, program manager for rodent and vector control at D.C. Health, and John Guggenmos, a commissioner for the Advisory Neighborhood Commission’s Ward 2. The meeting lasted well over an hour, going almost 45 minutes over the allotted time to account for everyone’s comments and concerns.

Guggenmos said when dealing with an out-of-control rat population, it is essential to go back to the basics and deny rats food and shelter.

“If we don’t do it as a community, one rat will travel 200 feet to go to a food source,” he said.

Residents can call 311 to report any sighting of rats around their residence, Brown said, and the department will respond after three days and complete an inspection.

He said the department will communicate frequently in the days after about what homeowners can do to prevent rats, such as mesh wire or rodenticides.

The department will also issue citations, some as much as a $500 ticket, if restaurants’ or businesses’ dumpsters are without a lid or have debris along the outside of the cans and bins, Brown said.

Residents can hold their local businesses accountable by taking a date-stamped photo of overflowing or unfit trash receptacles with the business’s address and submitting them to him for a ticket, Brown added.

Those photos can be used as evidence in issuing citations, Brown said, which will be an asset for the department, as trash is usually picked up before their start time at 7:30 a.m.

However, he said, issuing tickets is not the ultimate goal.

“Sometimes the property owner or property manager does not live on that property. So that’s a way we can get their attention. … We are not a money-making organization. We are a changing-behavior organization,” Brown said.

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