Highway Marker Commemorates PCB Landfill Protests

Local residents formed the Warren County Citizens Concerned About PCBs in response to the landfill proposal.  That group was joined by the United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and other prominent groups and individuals to protest the landfill.  In September 1982, approximately 500 protesters were arrested while trying to stop the trucks from delivering the PCB contaminated soil.  It was the first time opponents of a hazardous waste facility had been arrested for civil disobedience....