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He hasn't been charged with anything, and the issue isn't picking up trach, but dredging the river with heavy equipment and removing silt.
That can have severe unintended consequences. You're changing the speed and flow of a waterway. That's a big deal.
I don't see anything about heavy equipment. According to the article, it's a creek rather than a full river, but it does claim that the scale of the cleanup could cause a flood risk.
Either way, the real crime is that the authorities never cleaned it up. Authorities failing to do their job will eventually invite people to take matters into their own hand.
They brought in an excavator.
I can say in chicago there was nasty stuff down in the silt that they by and large do not want to com back up into the water.
what did you do?