{"id":17494,"date":"2018-05-18T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=17494"},"modified":"2018-05-18T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:00:56","slug":"tioga-county-joins-forces-with-state-and-local-partners-to-tackle-illegal-dump-site-24-for-great-american-cleanup-of-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=17494","title":{"rendered":"Tioga County Joins Forces with State, and Local Partners to Tackle Illegal Dump \u201cSite 24\u201d for Great American Cleanup of PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17495\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tiogabeforeandafter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17495\" class=\"wp-image-17495\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tiogabeforeandafter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tiogabeforeandafter.jpg 865w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tiogabeforeandafter-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tiogabeforeandafter-768x292.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo provided by Tioga County Conservation District.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>Tioga County Conservation District, PA DEP, Shell, Gas Field Specialists, and Northern Tier Solid Waste Authority joined forces on Thursday, April 19, to clean up a challenging illegal dump site, known as \u201cSite 24,\u201d to eliminate a potential source of pollution to the Cowanesque River.<\/p>\r\n<p>The cleanup resulted in the removal of 3.17 Tons of accumulated waste material and 3.81 Tons of tires (277 tires) from an abandoned railroad grade adjacent to the Cowanesque River. Heavy equipment provided by Shell was used to remove the material from the steep embankment and placed in roll-off containers provided by Northern Tier Solid Waste Authority.<\/p>\r\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tioga-illegal-dumpsite-press-release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read the entire press release.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tioga County Conservation District, PA DEP, Shell, Gas Field Specialists, and Northern Tier Solid Waste Authority joined forces on Thursday, April 19, to clean up a challenging illegal dump site, known as \u201cSite 24,\u201d to eliminate a potential source of pollution to the Cowanesque River. The cleanup resulted in the removal of 3.17 Tons of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}