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Jun142004
As Trash Site Persists, DC Neighbors Fume
Monday, June 14, 2004 at 02:45AM
"Why do we have to smell it?" she asked. "How long do they think we can live here? It's killing us."
Ruth J. Wilson suffers from asthma and has twice had pneumonia that she blames squarely on where she lives -- a street less than 200 feet from a trash transfer station where garbage trucks emit fumes, rodents run rampant and a foul odor hangs thick in the air on hot days. After two years of the City refusing to do anything about the issue, the neighbors have filed a lawsuit. [more]
Ruth J. Wilson suffers from asthma and has twice had pneumonia that she blames squarely on where she lives -- a street less than 200 feet from a trash transfer station where garbage trucks emit fumes, rodents run rampant and a foul odor hangs thick in the air on hot days. After two years of the City refusing to do anything about the issue, the neighbors have filed a lawsuit. [more]
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