About two hundred rats every day observe students on school grounds on Roosevelt island (Roosevelt Island) in new York.
According to local residents and Susan Rosenthal, President of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC), rats appeared once on school property, uprooted the old tree. Through the hole in the ground left by the roots, the rats began to get into the school. The second reason is the poor separation of waste from schools, writes DNAinfo.
«It’s crazy,» says ERKA Kosta, the mother of a second grader. «Every morning I see the rats that climb over the walls of the school, the school cafeteria, where to sit and eat children.» According to Costa, she was one of the first who sounded the alarm, but when addressed to the Director, she said that what is happening outside the school walls – not the competence of the school.
According to preliminary data, the school settled a real colony of rats, about 200 species.
RIOC has already held meetings with representatives of the Department of education and sanitation.
They have promised to install a new garbage containers, to fill up holes in the ground with gravel and also put a on-site bait with rat poison.
«In addition, the school will receive new equipment to recycle waste,» — said the representative of the Department of education Michael Aciman.
According to experts, in order to completely destroy the rat colony, you will need not less than 6-8 weeks.
