Remember the private dump on Walkup Avenue next to Covered Bridge Trails on land owned by Paul Iverson.

I wrote of how veterans’ advocate John Blanchard bid $1 in an attempt to win the bid.

McHenry County thought the bid was too good to be true and noted that most of the companies bidding did not have much of a track record. NASA Education, which just put on its third Veterans’ Stand Down at Camp Algonquin bid $4,999.

Why were the bids so low?

Blanchard wanted to create jobs for veterans and he figured that sale of the stuff in the dump would allow him to pay their wages.

The low bids from Blanchard-created organizations were rejected.

Omega Demolition of Elgin got the job for $22,000

That’s the same company that won the $115,000 contract to tear down the old Crystal Lake Public Safety Building. That site looks nice. It even has grass now.

But it is in full public view. Iverson’s is not.

Omega said it would complete its clean up of the private dump in nine days. The bids were opened on July 30th.

The deadline set by the bid specifications was August 20th.

So, the site should be completely clean now, right.

The picture you see at the top is of batteries that seem to have been left on the site by Omega.

Do batteries qualify as toxic waste?

You can enlarge both pictures by clicking on them. The Public Safety Building photo was taken on August 20, the day the bid specs said the Iverson property was supposed to be cleaned up.