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Nassau County Dumps Trash on a Public Beach

Long Island Press | August 7, 2004

The county is using one of its public beaches as an illegal landfill. File cabinets, old auto parts, rusty oil drums, and home appliances are piled ten feet high behind massive walls of sand, apparently created to disguise the trash behind them.

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Tags: environment, Long Island, endangered species, Health Department, health hazard, junkyard, Legislator Norma Gonsalves (R-East Meadow), Lido Beach, nesting area, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Nickerson Beach, piping plover, South Shore

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