Notoriously filthy Spruston Rd. property now clean after $90,000 effort Jan 26, 2018 4:21 PM

NANAIMO — Nine days and $90,000 later, one of the messiest properties Regional District of Nanaimo staff have ever seen is now clean of garbage.

Crews attacked the mountains of debris, waste and trash at a property on Spruston Rd. from Jan. 15 to Jan. 24.

Tom Armet, the RDN’s manager of building and bylaw services, said while the final cost hasn’t been finalzed, it should cost roughly $90,000 to clean what he considered the messiest property he’d ever seen.

“Our contractors removed approximately 33 bins full of debris, which was pretty much everything you can imagine…Numerous derelict vessels were taken off the property as well as some buildings that were in a state of collapse,” he said.