100 More Tires Dumped In West Rock

When Peter Davis and his crew were almost done cleaning up more than 500 tires that had been illegally dumped off of Springside Avenue, he arrived once again to find 100 more. Davis, a part-time city parks employee, spends his days cleaning up various illegal dumping spots. He’s been with the Parks Department for 40 years, having served as the city’s riverkeeper before retiring and then returning to part-time work. For more than a month, he and a crew of volunteers and parks employees spent an hour a few days per week collecting the approximately 550 tires scattered across the woods off of Springside Avenue in West Rock Park, not too far from Common Ground High School, between the road and Wintergreen Brook. That initial dump was in late August. No one knew who the dumper was. It appears they came back. Davis said that the parks team was ready to finish up the last 20 or so tires left from the last dump around three weeks ago when he saw that 100 more tires littered the woods.

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