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• Fence Repair/Replacement<br />

• Wood Replacement<br />

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NUISANCE ABATEMENT ENFORCEMENT<br />

CONTINUES IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS<br />

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office has an overall Nuisance Abatement<br />

program for neighborhoods, such as ours, which have suffered from<br />

severe neglect during the sub-prime foreclosure crisis. Empty homes with<br />

junk and clutter in the front and back yards, eyesores for the community,<br />

inoperable vehicles, health and safety hazards… these and much more<br />

are addressed under Texas law as it applies to Nuisance Abatements in<br />

the Traffic Code and the Health and Safety code.<br />

All contract units are trained in every Nuisance Abatement law on the<br />

books. Each law will be enforced quickly. Once again, we are putting a<br />

burden on the Sheriff’s Office that rightfully belongs on other agencies<br />

and the homeowners’ associations, but this is the most expeditious way<br />

of solving the many problems we are seeing in both <strong>Westlake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> and<br />

<strong>Westlake</strong>.<br />

So, if you know of a home that is abandoned, has a junk vehicle in the<br />

driveway or street, trash, debris, high grass, a dangerous swimming pool,<br />

etc., please email Annette Baldwin at info.westlake@gmail.com or call<br />

her at 281-578-9118. She will forward the information to our deputy or<br />

the district nuisance abatement deputy who will act on it immediately.<br />

This program began in 2011 following the training of all deputies. New<br />

deputies who bid into contracts are trained in Nuisance Abatement prior<br />

to their new assignment.<br />

The vehicle Nuisance Abatement and parking code are enforced in an<br />

ongoing policy for <strong>Westlake</strong> and <strong>Westlake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong>. The health and safety<br />

laws will supplement that for further improvement in our neighborhoods.<br />

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office is partnering with the Harris County<br />

Health Department and the County Attorney in an effort to clean up<br />

these problems.<br />

WARN YOUR CHILDREN ABOUT SURFACE WATER<br />

IN BAYOUS & SPILLWAYS<br />

Please warn your children not to swim in any surface water bayous or<br />

spillways in Harris County. Most MUD districts dump “gray water” into<br />

the surface water of Harris County. “Gray water” is partially processed<br />

waste water from sewers and contains lots of bacteria. Recently we have<br />

seen younger children wading in the spillways and teenagers in the<br />

waters of the bayous. In addition to the bacteria, our bayous are home to<br />

a number of animals such as alligators and snakes.<br />

Just to be safe, have a conversation with your children about our<br />

waterways.<br />

Always there for you!<br />

CALL IT IN… CALL IT IN<br />

A quick review of our calls for service in 2016, has demonstrated that our<br />

residents are not calling the Sheriff’s Office on suspicious persons and<br />

suspicious vehicles as well as crimes such as burglary of a motor vehicle, etc.<br />

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If you don’t call to report a crime or suspected criminal activity in progress<br />

or suspicious persons or vehicles, no arrests will be made, the crime or<br />

criminal activity will continue and the Sheriff’s Office will not know that<br />

anything is going on. Yes, we have those rare occasions where a deputy,<br />

by pure luck, drives up on a crime or suspicious activity in progress. But<br />

why rely on luck when you have a telephone? The number to call is 713-<br />

221-6000. This is the phone number for the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.<br />

If there is an emergency, call 9-1-1. We live in HARRIS County. If you would<br />

like a magnet for your refrigerator so that both these numbers are readily<br />

available to you, stop at the Franz Road Fry Store Front and pick one up.<br />

4 <strong>February</strong> <strong>2017</strong> | <strong>Westlake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> / <strong>Westlake</strong>

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