Charleston Daily Mail -
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Published on: 6/24/2003
Last Visited: 6/25/2003
Almost as common as seeing people dumping trash into the piles is seeing other people search in the heaps for hidden treasures that might not have been completely destroyed by water damage, said Clay Carney, operations officer with the state Office of Emergency Services.
"After a flood, we always have a problem with scavengers," Carney said Monday, as the debris pile in Elkview, nicknamed "Mount Trashmore" by local emergency responders, was being targeted as a potential source for salvageable goods.
"The only way to control it is to put a police officer out there 24-7 and we aren't going to do that until it becomes a real problem," Carney said, citing the expense of paying security officers or police officers to guard the trash.
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"We don't have a whole lot of other places we can put them," Carney said.