Covered Bridge Trails Subdivision Probably Did Not Get the Dump Clean Up It Hoped For

Yesterday, McHenry County Blog ran a photograph of batteries left on the Paul Iverson property on McHenry Blacktop (or Crystal Lake Blacktop, if you are from McHenry).

The picture was taken after the McHenry County government-hired Omega Demolition presumably completed its clean up. Its winning bid was for $22,000.

You can’t see much of the property from Walkup Avenue, but if you look on the western side of the road between the entrance to Covered Bridge Trails and Prairie Ridge High School, you will see an old mailbox and a dirt road.

There’s a fair amount of property behind the mail box between the road and the subdivision.

And, there was enough stuff to draw the interest of veterans’ advocate John Blanchard of NASA (National Association of Systems Administrators). NASA is located on the northern top of the Terra Cotta hill on Route 31, just to help you identify this player. Four corporate entities he has created submitted bids for the clean up—including one for $1–but none were deemed acceptable.

Instead the lowest bidding “professional” clean up company—Omega—got the job.

Blanchard had spotted a couple of usable truck trailers among the junk and he planned to use them in a trucking company where veterans would be the drivers. The company Vet-Tek now delivers dry goods in the Chicago-Miami-Houston triangle. Chicago is defined broadly. Milwaukee, for instance, is included.

Other “goodies” were also spotted.

But some “not-so-goodies” remain.

These look like a boat and a black car.

Kind of hard to miss, wouldn’t you say?

You can get a better look by clicking on the picture.


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