HOI News has followed up on the dumping that’s occurred on an abandoned portion of Big Hollow Road. It turns out that the abandoned slab is not a city road, but a county road. This, despite the fact that it’s located within the city. How confusing. Nevertheless, my apologies to the City for any disparaging remarks I may have made about the city’s code enforcement or litter-clean-up efforts on this stretch.

The county sounds a little reluctant to clean up the mess:

“We ask that the people maintain don’t throw their garbage on there. We do at times take some of the larger things out as a rule- we don’t- we’re so busy with maintaining the roadways we don’t really have the time or people to invest in proper clean up,” said Peoria County engineer Tom McFarland.

They also stated that they were considering sealing off the road. I think that would be a good idea. There’s no reason to give easy access to a highly-secluded, abandoned roadway. It just invites illegal dumping and possibly other undesirable activity.

I think someone mentioned this in the comments section of my last post on this topic, and I couldn’t agree more: the real villains in this case are the filthy pigs who dumped this garbage back there in the first place. I wish they could be caught and fined, or — even better — be given back their garbage, preferably on their living room floor.