Citizens take back Tri-City hills from illegal dumpers – earn environmental praise

By Joye Redfield-Wilder


Part of Jim Coleman’s job at the Benton-Franklin Health
District is to respond to solid waste complaints such as illegal dumping. When
he was asked to look into complaints of garbage accumulating in the Zintel
Canyon area of State Route 397 near Kennewick, Wash., he found it wouldn’t be a
routine investigation.


“I was amazed at the grassroots efforts already underway.