The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to figure out what to do about a riverside recycling facility located on an Indian allotment in Washington.

Robert McKay, a member of the Nooksack Tribe, has operated the dump on his land since 1990. But local officials aren't happy about it and have become increasingly concerned about pollution to the Nooksack River.

The tribe is also concerned but says it can't act because the allotment is not located within the reservation. The county has no jurisdiction either.

So the EPA has been called in to investigate the situation and possible arrange a cleanup.

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Riverside dump alarms county, tribe (The Bellingham Herald 2/25)