Illegal Dumping Clogs Utah Sewer System
1/27/2017
OREM, Utah (AP) – The so-called “phantom dumper” has returned to Orem, once again clogging the city’s sewer system with fibrous sludge.
Water Resources Division Manager Neil Winterton says someone has dumped fibrous gunk into Orem’s system three times in the past eight days.
The dumping has been going on for the past seven months, costing the city thousands of dollars each time. In November the city printed T-shirts with a cartoon phantom on the front to raise awareness that the behavior is illegal.
Winterton estimates cleaning the goop up has cost the city close to $100,000.
City administrators are offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the person responsible for the illegal dumping.
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