UPDATE #2 (FROM A CITY OFFICIAL):Â This is an approved rubble site for Friessen Construction. Â The remediation plan for the property is to convert it into open space, although no specific plans have ever been approved.
UPDATE:Â A city official called me about the landfill, they are looking into it. They told me that there is no immediate plans to make a park in that area, he confirmed that with Director of Parks and Rec, Don Kearney. They are also going to check with directors Cotter and Cooper to see what the plans are. This should be interesting. They drove by it and it appeared to them it was a concrete pit.
From a South DaCola foot soldier;
I was visiting a friend who lives on North Shawnee. As she was showing me her home, I was shocked when I looked out the back of her home. There is a large vacant area that looks like a landfill. She said that the residents in that area have been told that it will eventually be a park.
The address is 3301 East 3rd Street and that it currently belongs to Friessen Construction Inc.
Given the current climate at City Hall regarding “code enforcement” I couldn’t believe what I was seeing!!
I’m sure that the City must be aware of this “mess” because as developers put together neighborhoods they must “set aside” a certain number of acres for park land. I believe that the homes in this area are at least ten years old.
Directions: At the intersection of 6th St and Cleveland, go east (Twin Towers is the second turn on the north side of 6th St) Twin Towers is one block long and dead ends at the vacant property I am talking about. Turn left onto 5th Street, you will see the landfill area in the back of the homes that line the north side of 5th St. Turn right onto Shawnee and once again you can see the landfill behind the homes on the east side of Shawnee. Follow Shawnee north, it curves off to the east and becomes 3rd Street, from the north side of this vacant property (3301 East 3rd Street) you can see the landfill area by looking to the south.
The “better view” is by looking in the back of the homes on 5th Street and on Shawnee.
Is someone going to turn them in?
What is it being filled with? There are parts of the Tuthill neighbor, developed by Ronning in the 50’s-60’s that are literally built on top of an old garbage dump. You do NOT want to buy a house in that area. Methane gas, and subsurface caving as the deep rot goes on and on.
Looks like a good starter issue for whoever runs against Kenny Anderson. Homeowners (taxpayers) deserve better than this!
Let’s just pretend for a few seconds, all of the above does not exist under that pit – but who would tolerate this bullshit in their backyard w/o the waste?! Seriously? Can you imagine the kind of dust that is kicked up when it is windy? I betcha the Friessen family doesn’t have this in their backyard. Tim Stanga says it best, we know who owns this town . . .
Dust a kickn’? Maybe someone should call Noem’s office…
I live not far from there. I think it used to be a gravel pit.
1 block to the East is Anne Sullivan/Kenny Anderson Sr. Community center. Across the street to the North is the Oak View Library and there’s a master plan to turn the wooded area to the North of the Library into a nature park with a walking trail, benches and a gazebo. That might be the Park the neighbors have heard about.
Back in the 80’s I did a lot of the underground development work out in that area (North of 6th, West of Sycamore). All of those hills out there are almost pure sand/gravel once you down below the surface soils (2 feet or so). Real crap ground to put sewer, water and such down in. Good when it’s backfilled – just hell to dig and keep from caving in all the time.
Good thing we don’t have earth quakes around here. That stuff would be liquifacted in a heart beat.
Ruf – So basically what you are saying is they are using the land for sand for concrete?
I’ll have to go tsake a look at the next time I’m up that way, but from what it looks like – it was once a sand pit – probably for Myrl and Roys or Sweetman or some such, and is now being “backfilled” with what looks from Google Earth pics as concrete chunks/scraps/rubble.
I’ll have to go take a look at the next time I’m up that way, but the way it reads – it was once a sand pit – probably for Myrl and Roys or Sweetman or some such, and is now being “backfilled” with what looks from Google Earth pics as concrete waste/chunks/scraps/rubble.
Hmmm, interesting double post????