The city government officially started the cleaning of our worst Pennsylvania River. Yesterday the workers began to pump out some of the waste. There was public present, which many spoke out. One citizen says, "We didn't know how much longer the procrastination was going to go on." The event was so important that even the first selectman and other members of office were there to experience it.

The industry business has been dumping waste for a long time that was killing the river, but no one cared to do anything about it. The coal mining garbage that was being thrown into it was damaging it tremendously. There has been a great increase in coal mines and miners, which made it at the top of the industry. There were some dynamited blasts that took place a few months ago, that could very well have contributed to this pollution. The careless behavior of the industry owners has hurt this river and people are finally starting to notice. As first selectman Tumpane says, "We realized that we needed to crack down on some of the waste habits going on around this city."

There were many people at the scene when they started to clean up last Tuesday. Some were there to help out and others were there to purely experience the unbelievable step that the government was taking. There has always been support in this area for keeping the environment clean. "If they didn't start now, the whole city might have been polluted," said another bystander. It appears that this problem was bigger than anyone thought.

" We weren't aware of how bad the problem was," said Tumpane. Once again trying to make reasoning for the disaster occurring.

Many people spoke out against pollution of the river at the small press conference last Monday. It pleased many to see that the situation was finally being resolved.