Residents in Philadelphia’s Tacony neighborhood say years of illegal dumping have turned a stretch of land behind their homes into what city leaders describe as one of the worst sites in the city.
The dumping area sits along a slope behind Pennway Street, where piles of garbage and construction debris have accumulated over time.
“It’s a landfill, but typically it starts from up there. You don’t have access, so people are just dumping stuff off the bridge,” one resident said…