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Large-Scale
Cleanup Project
In 2007, PA CleanWays
received a two-year grant award from the Richard King Mellon
Foundation in support of its Statewide Illegal Dump Survey
and Cleanup Campaign. These funds were earmarked for Western
Pennsylvania. The grant award targets large-scale cleanup
projects over the two-year period along with seven county-based
illegal dump surveys.
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To date, three dump sites
have been removed under this project removing almost 300 tons
of waste! Two of the sites were in Bedford County and the
third site was in Mifflin County. You can learn more about
each of these cleanups at the bottom of this page. Due to
the Richard King Mellon Foundation grant and the initiative
of this project, PA CleanWays was able to obtain additional
funding for these cleanups. These funders include:
- Penelec Fund for the Future
of Greater Johnstown Fund and the Community Foundation for
the Alleghenies
- Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Protection
- REI, Inc.
- Robert S. Waters Charitable
Trust
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CleanWays is currently working on cleaning large-scale
dump sites in Butler and Cambria Counties. Due to the
size and complexity of these cleanups, they are being
done in stages and will be completed in the fall of 2008.
Since 1990, PA CleanWays and its chapters and affiliates
have removed over 9,700 tons of trash and recycled 2,100
tons of scrap metal from Pennsylvania's hillsides, local
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