Poetic Justice for One Illegal Dumper One illegal trash dumper in Westmoreland County, PA, found themselves in a veritable quagmire recently. PA CleanWays of Westmoreland County and the Sewickley Creek Watershed Group recently targeted an illegal dumpsite for cleanup. Volunteers from both groups and the public works department from South Huntingdon Township removed 21 tons of various household trash, shingles and other construction debris from this site. Later in the week, as one of the public works department employees who helped with the cleanup was on his way to work, he noticed a dump truck stuck in the mud at the cleanup site. He called the State Police and the township. Apparently the dump truck was in the process of dumping a new load of shingles. According to Scott Painter from South Huntingdon Township, the dumper was fined by the State Police, the Department of Environmental Protection, South Huntingdon Township and had to pay to have his dump truck towed. http://www.paenvironmentdigest.com/newsletter/default.asp?NewsletterArticleID=6717
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