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Beaver Island sanitary landfill receives a cleanup notice, 1981

Also Beaver Island dump cleanup 1981

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TypeEvent
Date1981-05
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Date
1981-05
Kind
Announcement
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
public-servicecommunitycommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The May 1981 Beaver Beacon says Beaver Island’s sanitary landfill had been cleaned and asks residents to bag garbage and paper to keep it clean.

Evidence and limits

The short public-service notice does not identify the contractor, work scope, cost, or municipal record.

Sources

  1. States that the sanitary landfill had been cleaned by an expert and asks residents to keep it clean by bagging garbage and paper; it gives a pickup phone number. It does not identify the contractor, scope, cost, site, or municipal record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1981-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held thirteen-page May issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the cleanup notice.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1981-05_Beaver-Beacon

Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island sanitary landfill receives a cleanup notice, 1981”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-sanitary-landfill-cleanup-notice-1981/, accessed [date], citing Sanitary Engineer notice, Beaver Beacon, May 1981. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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