Illegal dumps with milk jugs, dead animals and rusted appliances dot the mountainsides. Raw sewage straight from thousands of homes spills from pipes into streams. The Detroit News.
Junked cars line many of eastern Kentucky's creekbeds.
Illegal dumps with milk jugs, dead animals and rusted appliances dot the mountainsides. It's awfully hard to get it cleaned up in three or four years. Kentucky's mountain folk historically have been self-sustaining people. Their garbage was primarily biodegradable or easily burned. Modern highways and other changes opened up the area.