A group of volunteers cleaned up an authorized dump site on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Bobby Sullivan, the Oglala Sioux Tribe's solid and hazardous-waste, said people have been dumping trash as the site since 1973. Running water has washed the trash down to a small pond.
The cleanup project took a week. Some of the volunteers were inmates at the tribal jail.
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Volunteers unclutter reservation
(The Rapid City Journal 9/29)
Volunteers clean up site on Pine Ridge Reservation
Friday, September 29, 2006
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