NATCHEZ &045;&045; Fast food bags, dead animals and old televisions are causing concern in the county.

Litter on county roads isn’t a new problem for the Adams County supervisors, but finding the perfect solution is still yet to be achieved.

Last year the county purchased surveillance cameras to be posted around the county, hidden in the foliage, to catch litterbugs illegally dumping materials.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation provided two vans to be filled with jail inmates for collecting trash on state roads.

Yet, the trash is still there.

The latest complaints are coming from Kingston Road, and that district’s supervisor, Henry Watts, raised some concerns at Thursday board meeting.

Watts said he’s talked with several residents and business owners on the road and even received a phone call from the Department of Environmental Quality over the weekend about a TV, dead dogs and dead deer on the road.

&uot;I was just very disappointed to see all that garbage out there,&uot; Watts said. &uot;The complaint was justified, and I think we need to do a better job picking up that garbage.&uot;

Board President Darryl Grennell attributed the lack of recent clean-ups on the road to several road department employees vacation time.

Watts said the vacations weren’t an acceptable excuse and that he would like to look into putting inmates on the roads, a program that was formerly in place but is not currently running. He said after a clean-up stricter enforcement would be necessary, including offering rewards for those who report those seen littering.

Grennell agreed that enforcement was key, but also said it was up to the community to keep their roads clean.

&uot;It’s going to take the community members getting out there to clean up their community,&uot; Grennell said. &uot;We need to continue to promote the Adopt-a-highway program, and we are just going to have to instill cleanliness in people.&uot;

Kingston Road resident Julie Prince said Thursday night that the situation of her road was awful.

&uot;It looks horrible,&uot; she said. &uot;People are throwing stuff out of their cars. It’s a shame it has to happen to begin with, that people are dumb enough to throw it out of their cars.&uot;

Prince said road cleanup would take more than just a few people and she would be interested in seeing the county or any other group organize a cleanup.

During the meeting, Watts said he felt it was the county’s responsibility to clean the roads.

&uot;If you think you are going to rely on the goodness of people’s hearts to get this done, it won’t happen,&uot; Watts said. &uot;If nobody worked and all we did was pick up garbage we’d have clean roads.&uot;

All the supervisors agreed that trash-filled roads were a business turnoff and did nothing but hurt the county.

Though no conclusion was reached Thursday, Watts said he would approach the sheriff about inmate cleanups and extra patrols.

It’s looks horrible, people throwing their trash out

Dead dog stayed there forever, big tv on side of road

Broken glass

Bags of trash on side of road&045;&045;

It’s awful

One place &045;

Ppl throwing stuff out of their car

Pretty road and it’s a shame

Watts contacted &045;

Inmates out picking up the trash &045; haven’t seen them while

Shame it has to happen to begin with, ppl dumb enough to throw it out of their cars

Ignorance I guess

As long as county or somebody, group of ppl

One person can’t do it .