Dive summary:
- A slew of old refrigerators, microwaves, computers, tables, couches, stuffed chairs, old mattresses and tires have been discovered piled up in roadside ditches and on trails in the Eau Claire County Forest in Wisconsin.
- All of these materials should have made it to the Seven Mile Creek Landfill in nearby Seymour but for one reason or another never made it there.
- Residents and Advanced Disposal are volunteering their time to help clean up the mess, which holds unknown amounts of waste, some quite unpleasant like used syringes and antifreeze.
From the article:
St. Aubin, a town of Seymour resident, said the more the snow melts, the more litter is revealed along roadsides. The trash pickup group is working with four UW-Eau Claire students who are using GPS units to pinpoint major garbage piles and create maps showing them.
On cleanup day volunteers will divide into four groups, each with its own map plotting the trash piles and nearest disposal site, said David Hon, a committee member who is a hydrogeologist with the state Department of Natural Resources. The maps will estimate the volume of waste and whether any of it might be hazardous, he said. ...
