JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Businesses along Ridgewood Road are tired of illegal dumping at a long-vacant building near them. A volunteer organization that cleans the area won’t return and wants the city to help them stop wasting their efforts.
About six months ago a parking lot behind an empty building on Ridgewood was cleared by Cleanup Jackson. It is again filled with debris. The volunteers, who do the cleaning, want the city to hold the owner of the vacant building and property responsible for its maintenance.
“It’s kind of disheartening to see this,” said Cleanup Jackson founder and realtor Locke Ward while looking at the eyesore…