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Article: ILLINOIS EPA INITIATES SECOND ILLEGAL DUMP CLEANUP IN TREASURED SHAWNEE NATIONAL FOREST
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 29, 2008
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The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release:
Continuing to remove illegally dumped waste and to protect the environment from the senseless acts of fly dumpers in one of the country's most treasured forests, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) Director Doug Scott today announced that the Agency will begin a cleanup of another illegal dump site in the Shawnee National Forest. The clean up begins tomorrow, April 30 and weather permitting, will finish Monday, May 5.
The cleanup is the second of at least ten illegal dump sites in the Shawnee National Forest and consists of nearly 200 cubic yards of waste, which is scattered in deep ravines ...