Commissioners give approval for undertaking to limit illegally dumped items
(May 31, 2019) Looking to curtail illegal dumping on county roads and recycling centers, the Worcester County Commissioners have approved a new anti-littering campaign that will focus on education first and then tougher enforcement.
Public Works Director John Tustin told the commissioners last Tuesday that a brainstorming session was held in early April between various county departments to tackle the continuing issue of illegal dumping.
“After a lengthy discussion, we’re looking at education, enforcement, and abatement or clean up,” he said.
Tustin suggested the effort should begin with a six-month anti-littering campaign that would involve press releases, flyers and public service announcements.
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21 comments:
Wicomico county should take notice!! Your county roads look like a third world country
Take a look at Riverton Road
May 31, 2019 at 9:44 AM Really? Point the finger at people who dump their trash on the side of the road. We need a program to tell them to stop? Because people are either too selfish and ignorant to know better?
9:44-I drive Wicomico Rds thoroughly and on a daily basis. You are greatly exaggerating. You want to see some garbage, check out the back roads of VA.
You put up speed limit signs yet people still speed. Nothing will change with the littering, especially out in the Pocomoke Forest.
Put Deer cameras up.
That is becasue when they have nothing to do, which is never the case, they sit in their trucks talking or sleeping in parking lots... They could be getting ditches cleaned out or dug deeper to make way for all of these flooding storms we will be having soon... NO they will wait until it floods to even consider doing nothing about it...
also consider this is the outcome of you ass hat's always wanting to charge for shit and charge high amounts... You want shit to stop being toss on the side of roads, make it free to get into the f'g dump... I will do what I need to survive and if that means tossing shit out the window bc you clowns want to charge to throw away trash, I can do it for free...
Do they actually think that they can just pass a law and the problem will be solved? Typical government logic.
Hefty fines and community service for punishment.
JFC it is already illegal to litter. What law are you talking about?
@10:50 it's because the local people pi k it up regularly wicomico county doesn't even attempt to
11:25 sounds like a very polished, educated individual. Like a trailer park colliding with a dumpster.
With a $100.00 cost for a transfer station permit, those people that live in the trailers in the forest are not going to buy a permit and drive into town to dump their trash and garbage. All the "campaigns' in the world are not going to solve the problem of illegal dumping in the forest. Wishful thing, and a waste of money. "Enforcement," hah! Let's see how they're going to do that. Lower the cost of a permit, or spend the money cleaning up the trash.
I found where a neighbor had dumped a trailer load of yard debris at the end of a cul-de-sac in our neighborhood, and called the sheriff's department. They laughed at me and told me to sue the neighbor. The debris was dumped on the shoulder (county property). I even identified the neighbor that did it. They didn't care, because they didn't see them do it. Enforcement, my ass. What are they going to do. Put stake outs in the forest? You can report it all you like, but law enforcement will do nothing about a illegal dumping complaint. Nothing!
@1:55 but what their trying to say is actually true!!
@10:50 I'll say this much the county NEVER cleans out Riverside drive towards the upper ferry and around to the dump on walnut tree road. There's a gentleman that has taken it upon himself to go out and pick up trash regularly. The idiots that take trash to the walnut tree station don't secure there garbage and it ends up everywhere. Then you have the trash trucks that just let it go wherever if it's loose in the cans on trash day. Take a ride out Parker road one day it's disgusting
Ever been by the homeless camps? Crap piles with toilet paper marking the spots, empty wrappers, and loads of other trash all over the place. Throw these bums into jail.
County inmates would actually appreciate cleaning this up just to get out and get some fresh air and change of scenery.
Just wait until the Worcester county commissioners close the transfer stations. You will see a whole lot more trash dumped along the roadsides. I think that I will dump mine in the commissioners yards. Let them pick it up. They don't have anything else to do but waste taxpayers money
reading these comments shows that this area has an extremely vocal pro-littering population. I’m so proud of you all changing the hearts and minds of all the anti-littering liberals. Keep up the good work.
We should be able to ride down our local roadways without seeing trash everywhere!! With all the garbage people like Jake Day(locally) and the idiots in Wahington force upon us we should be willing to keep our area around out times free of trash
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