Stinky mess back again in Bithlo mobile home park

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — WFTV tried to help an Orange County neighborhood that was dealing with a huge mess that no one would clean up.

Last week, crews came to clean up some of the garbage at the mobile home park in Bithlo.

But on Tuesday when WFTV's Mark Joyella went back to the area, he saw a trash heap that was even bigger.

After WFTV aired a story about the mess in the mobile home park last week heavy equipment rolled in to clean it up.

But before the job was done, it seems somebody's lost interest.

WFTV found piles of trash, an old couch at the curb for weeks, and debris from a destroyed mobile home still attached to a power line.

"The cleanup people said they're not leaving 'til it's done, and there's at least the size of a school bus of demolished mobile home back there still sitting there," said resident James Coffey.

While the overflowing Dumpsters are gone, there are no new Dumpsters to put trash in. That leaves residents like Coffey wondering what happened to the complete cleanup everyone was talking about.

Coffey said when the crews stopped working mid-afternoon Friday, he assumed they would be back the next day. But when they didn't show up Saturday, Monday or Tuesday he was concerned.

An aide to Commissioner Bill Edwards told WFTV the cleanup is a high priority and it will be finished. The timeline however, has not been determined.