Let's try common sense on illegal dump

I have tried to address the illegal dumping on federal land a couple of times, but Scott did not agree with me, so he throws my letters in the trash. So I went to The Star building and asked why? He told me I need to quit writing my letters as though they are facts. So let’s use another word, common sense.

A couple of years ago Grand Coulee had a contract to do a good sized road project on Federal Ave. (The shortcut through town.) I can only guess that the contractor was paid to properly dispose of the leftover landfill. That was when five dump truck loads of sidewalk and curbs was dumped by my house on federal land. Common sense tells me that it was left over from the only road project that has been done since B street in the 70s.

The Grand Coulee inspector should have made sure it was disposed of correctly. I didn’t go to the city because they are the ones responsible for it being there in the first place, but I did call the USBR hoping they would take action and tell the contractor to clean up their mess. But no, they took a sample of the concrete and confirmed that the concrete was from the correct time period, but they just can’t figure out why it is there or where it came from.

The Grand Coulee project has a place to put their own concrete. I was told it would be easier to just move it to the storage area, but they have just been too busy to do it.

Make the contractor clean up his own illegal dump on federal land, but please don’t have it all sitting there for the next 10,000 years.

Robert Fields