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City receives grant to clean up dumps

Published 12:02am Saturday, January 12, 2013

NATCHEZ — The City of Natchez has received a $25,000 grant to clean up illegal dump sites.exciting

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality awarded the solid waste assistance grant to the city Wednesday.

City Engineer David Gardner said the grant will be used to clean up sites on Ford Street, South Concord Avenue and Johns Lane where people have illegally dumped trash.

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  • https://plus.google.com/101785462960818953428/posts Wilson Phillips

    I sure hope they catch all those involved. I do hate me some litterers. Why would someone trash the place where they live? Because they just don’t care.

    Minimum $1,000 fines, and some serious public service to make it up to us. This is the only fix for this problem.

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