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Lakewood residents press council to curb fireworks after July 4 trash and noise at Edgewater Park
Summary
Multiple Lakewood residents urged the City Council to restrict or ban consumer fireworks after weeks of loud displays, litter and debris at Edgewater Park and surrounding neighborhoods; council members said enforcement and code limits complicate an outright ban and suggested public input before policy changes.
Dozens of Lakewood residents urged the City Council on Monday to limit or ban consumer fireworks after extended July 4 celebrations that they say left trash, noise and safety hazards at Edgewater Park and nearby neighborhoods.
The appeals came during the council’s public-comment period and included multiple accounts of persistent noise, debris in and around Edgewater Park and incidents that residents called dangerous. “July 4 week got very intense with the trash disposal onto the ground and into the water,” said Haley Ivy, a long-term visitor who teaches near Lakewood. “I had to clean up the trash every day, sometimes twice a day.”
Residents described loud, prolonged firework displays that continued past midnight, piles of spent fireworks and single-use plastic littering park areas and…
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