In Shingletown, one problematic property has created a headache for the many people who live near it. Officials have decided to do something about it after having spent thousands to clean it up two years ago.

"We live up here to be closer to nature and once again we have to drive past all that junk," said Kathy Hunt who lives near the property. Her and others have been reaching out to officials demanding something be done.

Supervisor Les Baugh oversees the district where the property is located. He knows about it and says that in 2020 they got the approval for a $145,000 grant to clean up the trash but the grant did not allow to clean up the vehicles.

"We cleaned up so much trash, tons of trash," said Baugh. "We couldn't legally put a fence on the property to keep anyone out so we positioned an RV as a sort of gate at the entrance. It looks like that didn't stop them at all because the trash and more vehicles came back."

The property in question is 31000 Highway 44 and, according to officials, it belongs to a person who died years ago. On the property are over 50 vehicles and pounds of trash including loose car batteries, bleach bottles, mattresses, and more as it has become a dumpsite.

"We need to do something more about it. I saw chemicals in the creek and trash in the trees," exclaimed Hunt. "Two years ago I was saying the same thing, we spend the money to clean it up but don't spend anything to block it off completely then the trash was bound to come back."

A big problem, Hunt says, is the vehicles that keep getting dumped on the property.

Thomas Twist of the Shingletown Council posted Monday that they have gotten the approval to remove vehicles this week.

In his post Twist states,

The cost per vehicle is substantial so it is not know how many of the 50+ vehicles can be removed with the limited abandoned vehicle abatement fund in the budget and supplemented by some additional funds from the general fund. Whatever is left will be removed when grant funds become available, but those last vehicles may take as long as a year, depending on the available money.

Supervisor Baugh says that four county offices have been working on this to get it cleaned up and working on doing more to stop the issue.

"Something needs to happen more though, yes even putting up cameras so we can catch anyone who attempts to dump out there," exclaimed Hunt. "Our community wants to prevent this from happening over and over again."