Pennsylvania Names "Dirty Dozen" State-Property Dumpsites

Date: March 27, 2003

Source: News Room

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has named its "Dirty Dozen" list of contaminated sites on state property. The Dirty Dozen are a representative cross-section of the dumpsites identified on Pennsylvania forest and parklands. DCNR has cleaned 166 sites to date under its Forest Lands Beautification Program. The program provides up to $7.5 million over five years to clean up existing dumps on state forest and park lands by recycling or properly disposing of waste materials, monitoring sites and working with communities to reduce future dumping. More than 250 illegal dumpsites have been identified throughout Pennsylvania.
More information: www.dcnr.state.pa.us.

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