roughly, 20 volunteers helped clean up the Youghiogheny River by pulling out around 200 tires — all from just a 4-mile stretch. there are thousands more from rip rap decades ago, that's been dragged into the river by floodwaters

Since 2019, the Mountain Watershed Association’s semiannual cleanups have removed nearly 3,000 discarded tires from the river and its banks

back in the day, there were scrap yards, salvage yards, tire shops that would line the back of their property with them and floodwater would come and take them away

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