WCA employees take initiative on illegal dump sites

 

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A WCA employee works to clear refuse from the underbrush last week. Two WCA employees removed 15 truckloads of garbage from various illegal dumpsites around town.

The local environment is a little bit cleaner after the efforts this week of two enthusiastic WCA employees.

After two days, Arthur Larsen and Richard Oliver had collected 15 truckloads of discarded garbage. They picked up freezers, furniture, hot water tanks, tires, cans, discarded gill nets. Larger items, like a 500-gallon heating oil tank for a house on the spur road, and an abandoned car near Pat's Lake, will be left for city officials to clean up.

Dump sites come about when people seek to avoid paying fees to deposit garbage at the local landfill. A large refrigerator or freezer can co...



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