A multi-million-dollar project to dredge the Schuylkill River may be put on hold after thousands of tires were illegally dumped in the river.
An Army Corps of Engineers subcontractor working on dredging operations on the Schuylkill River has found over 3,000 tires north and south of the Strawberry Mansion Bridge and they are still counting.
"We’ve been watching all of the dredging that’s been going on and what I think is great about the river is you’re in the city, you can be amongst nature, you see the turtles and the ducks and fish swimming around," Hagenmeyer explained. "Hopefully, something can be changed so that people aren’t dumping like that."
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