An area which consists of the Oiwa-kaido road in between Mt. Inari and Mt. Oiwa, had long been the subject of illegal industrial waste dumping and burning of fields which caused adverse effects on the environment, therefore, the Kyoto Municipal Government started carrying out inspections and taking action, etc., against such illegal actions actions in 1996 and, as a result, environmentaly harmful acts resulting in pollution of the environmental such as burning off of fields have now been substantially eliminated.
大岩街道を挟んで隣接する稲荷山や大岩山を含めた地域では、以前より産業廃棄物の不法投棄や野焼きなどが行われ、住環境への悪影響が問題になっていたが、京都市が1996年より立入調査や違法行為に対しての指導などを行った結果、野焼きなど環境汚染をおよぼす行為はほぼ無くなった。