More tires dumped in Chattanooga Creek area after cleanup

Scenic Cities Beautiful Commission program coordinator Jeanette Eigelsbach, right, and Chattanooga code enforcement inspector Randy Ridge examine a newly dumped load of tires near the 900 block of Workman Road early Friday afternoon.

Dumped tires are rolling back into the Workman and Hooker roads areas near Chattanooga Creek.

Perhaps encouraged by the volunteer help to get them out of the creek last week, dumpers this time may have tried to make it easier on cleanup crews.

Hundreds of tires form several piles along the road – one stands beside the gate into a field and others line a driveway into a private lot. No one’s quite sure when they showed up.

“Unbelievable,” said Elizabeth Tallman-Gazaway, a community organizer in Alton Park. She has been vocal about the problem not being solved even after volunteers spent a sweltering Tuesday pulling about 500 tires out of the creek.

Randy Johnston of Mr. T’s Interstate Tires, who volunteered his truck and some workers to help with the cleanup, also is discouraged.