Untidy people not properly securing their garbage before heading to the Davidson landfill this spring has once again drawn the ire of many of this area’s ratepayers who must drive by the mess while travelling to and from town.

A number of residents have recently spotted garbage strewn along the road leading up to the landfill, which if not picked up eventually blows into a farmer’s nearby field.

Gary Edom, administrator for the Town of Davidson, said ratepayers hauling garbage to the landfill should tarp or tie down their load. He said the road leading up to the landfill doesn’t belong to anyone, but whenever garbage does fall off a truck it is the town’s ratepayers that must foot the bill for its pick-up.

“It would be our responsibility to clean up any garbage along it or to see that it is cleaned up,” said Edom. “It’s our landfill.”

Davidson has erected a fence around the landfill to keep any trash from escaping from the area. The town also has some “dirt mounding” in place to act as a windbreak, so nothing blows out.

Edom said it is the town’s employees who are tasked with the cleanup if something does find its way out of the landfill. He said they are also tasked with picking up any trash that falls off a truck before it gets to the dump, as they have no way to forcing people to properly secure their load before heading there.

“Even as far as making them come back, we have no idea whose truck (it was) unless there was a bag of garbage with their name on it,” he said. “You have no idea. You just got to pick it up and really that’s all you can do.”

It is common courtesy to other ratepayers as well as the town’s employees to make sure a load of garbage is secured so it won’t fall or blow off the back of a truck, he confirmed. Otherwise it’s a mess waiting to happen.

“Tie down or tarp (it),” said Edom. “Just make sure it is secured with the truck.”