To the Editor:

We had a junkyard pop up one day at the entrance to our little town.

That was years ago and then it was cars from the flood.

Now it is ugly garbage vehicles leaking oil, gas and various fluids straight into the very same ground that not that long ago was considered a highly polluted superfund site. Have we learned nothing?

I can’t get an answer who even owns this eyesore. I am almost positive its not zoned for roadside open air junkyard and pollution center.

What do you suppose tourists think when its the first thing they see as the enter town?

This eyesore is an environmental hazard , doubly so when the fact no one seems willing to claim this pop up junkyard leaves one to wonder who approved it and if whoever made it so gave the slightest thought about the town or its input.

Who owns it? Is this going to take 100 years and the fed to come in and clean up someday?

Because every time I pull up there are more there, send them to the junkyard they are ruining the area both in property value, eyesore and environment.

And there is no way with the slew of fluids leaking on the ground this is even legal.

So how long Lake Linden? How long until we say, “Get rid of that damn eyesore?”

At least Lake Linden was once nice to look at. Now it just feels like you are rolling into a junkyard as a town. It makes every single thing in our town uglier by its existence.

I bought a place I thought was a nice summer home with a lake near by, not a trailer lot in an industrial park. Now its just depressing to even enter town from the Hancock side.

Matthew Grunner

Lake Linden