02-03-2012, 05:08 AM
Trash has gotten much more noticeable since they shut down hours at all the dumps by about half or more two years ago. It's what happens in every jurisdiction. When you make it harder to get rid of trash, it just ends up everywhere. It would be insane for the County to hire people to pick up trash from a problem they caused. That would probably cost more than just changing the dump hours back to what they used to be. Years ago, the Kalapana dump was open anytime day or night. When the population around here more than doubled they cut the hours down to about 10% of that. The idea was that people couldn't dump prohibited items if they were open just a few hours and staffed. Well they aren't staffed full-time, so of course people know when they are open but not staffed, and just dump the same things at those times.