KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Kalamazoo city officials are working to vacate and finish the clean-up at the homeless encampment on Mills Street to avoid the potential for disaster later this month. Deputy City Manager Laura Lam says heavy spring rains could create flooding along the Kalamazoo River.
“We do know that this site if you see pictures from 2018, was almost entirely underwater.”
She says while many of the former occupants have been moved to emergency shelters at local motels, some people remain in tents on the site, where over 600 cubic yards of garbage were found on the site and in the Kalamazoo River.
She says those left there are being told verbally they should prepare to move by the third week of April.
I ride my bike across the river from the encampments and the picture doesn’t show the true extent of the garbage thrown along the banks. there are actually two encampments besides the Mill Street Encampment and all three locations are horrible sites to look at.
Why are we paying for the cleanup of those sites when we should be making the residents of those encampments do the cleanup? I’m sorry but most of those living there have come from other areas and States because Kalamazoo isn’t putting a stop to it. ever since the Encampment in Bronson Park turned the Park into another dumpsite the homeless have tripled in numbers. This is not the cause of the Covid-19 Pandemic it is caused by the Kalamazoo powers allowed it to happen.