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Derby Trash

May 25, 2007 // 4 Comments  // Add yours »

I'm disgusted with the Derby residents living along Derby Ave/115 who use the bank of the Naugatuck River as their private dumping ground.  I'm not accusing every person living there of doing this, but the majority of homes that fall between Tailgators and Division St. have piles of junk coating coating the hill that leads down to the river.  The Greenway, something Derby seems awfully proud of, provides walkers and runners an extremely un-scenic view of the discarded trash barrels, car batteries, motors, shopping carts, and other trash that people have dumped there.  It's disgusting.

I don't know if the land is owned by the city, state, or the people who own the homes up on RT 115, but either way the amount of trash here is inexcusable.  The city should be embarrassed for not having it cleaned up and the homeowners should be fined for blight and illegal dumping.  If you live in Derby and you're as unhappy about this as I am, please CLICK HERE to report the blight.

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Brings new meaning to "dirty derby", huh :-/

Posted on: May 25, 2007 4:54:25 PM

Did you photoshop in the teradactyl or did that come with the trash?

Posted on: May 29, 2007 12:24:17 PM

I walk by there all the time. It's so damn gross!

Posted on: Jun 16, 2007 5:38:37 PM

Haha yes it did come with the trash!

Eugene, I agree with you 100%! Something needs to be done about it!

Posted on: Jun 17, 2007 3:46:53 AM

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