Located in Buchanan State
Forest, Burnt Church Road suffered from ½-mile of illegal dumping
in East Providence Township, Bedford County. The 2002 Dirty Dozen site
degraded the beauty of this natural area, with hundreds of large truck
tires and other trash containing water that provided breeding sites for
mosquitoes.
A
second volunteer cleanup of Burnt Church Road was held on September 20,
2003, at which time 11 volunteers donated a total of 49.5 hours to the
project. In addition to local residents, volunteers were comprised of
the Bedford County Youth Probation and PA CleanWays of Bedford County.
This second phase yielded an additional 13.96 tons of trash and 20 tires.
WSI-Sandy Run Landfill
donated trash disposal costs for 2.22 tons and Penn Fuel Propane of Everett
recycled a large propane tank that was found during the cleanup. East
Providence Township and Penn Dot donated and installed a guide rail along
a portion of Burnt Church Road to protect the area from future dumping.
Buchanan State Forest Cleanup Team
Bedford County Youth Probation
Buchanan State Forest Employees
Local Volunteers
PA CleanWays of Bedford County
Roll Off Container Service
Seibel's Earth Moving, Inc.
WSI-Sandy Run Landfill
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Other contracted services
were provided by:
- Roll Off Container Service
of Osterburg, hauling & disposal
- WSI-Sandy Run Landfill
of Hopewell, trash and tire disposal
- Seibel's Earth Moving
Inc. of Hopewell, contactor excavated soil and trash & backfilled
site and planted grass seed
During the first phase
of the cleanup, Seibel's Earth Moving, Inc. removed 11.74 tons of partially
buried trash before backfilling and planting grass seed along a portion
of Burnt Church Road. Volunteers then removed another 2.22 tons of trash
and 20 more tires from the site. A total of 60 tons of trash and scrap
metal, along with 11 tons of tires, was removed from this site during
the spring and fall phases of the cleanup.
DCNR encourages residents
of Bedford County with disposal and recycling questions to contact the
Bedford County Recycling Coordinator, Regina Miller, at (814) 623-8099.
The
Buchanan
State Forest was named in honor of James Buchanan, 15th President
of the United States. It covers 75,000 acres in Bedford, Fulton, and
Franklin Counties.
The Tuscarora Hiking
Trail, covering a distance of 39 miles in the forest, follows the crest
of Tuscarora Mountain, connecting with the Big Blue Trail near Hancock,
Maryland.
Learn
about other
illegal dump sites in state forests and parks.
This
page last updated October 31, 2003.
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