KALAMAZOO TWP. Mich. (WOOD) — A Kalamazoo Township neighborhood is expected to see some relief as police look to clean up a trash pile that has been a recurring problem for years, according to residents.
North Westnedge Avenue ends at a dead end just feet from the US-131 Business Loop. In the shadow of passing vehicles, mounds of trash, discarded tires and old furniture rot in the sun. Jeff Weisman wants to know why and who’s going to clean it up.
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“I could see it from the highway. While I was on the road I could see all the tires and everything else at the end of the road. And one day, I drove back here and saw what a mess it really was,” said Weisman.
For more than a year, Weisman said he’s been following the growth of this dump site. He chronicled it through photos that he put on social media, showing trash blocking a billboard-access road and mounds of tires covered in snow. That mound is now covered in tall grass.
He estimates around 100 tires have been dumped…