Illegal dumping has town poised for crackdown

A spate of illegal dumping in the Town of Saukville has officials talking about installing signs and cameras and developing an ordinance to put a stop to the practice.

“We’re going to look at putting some teeth behind an ordinance,” Town Supr. Curt Rutkowski said.

Someone recently dumped scrap lumber, furniture, doors and other items in a remote roadside ditch.  

“It took two trailer loads of stuff and a good amount of time to wrestle that stuff out of the ice,” Rutkowski said, costing the town a few hundred dollars to pay someone to remove it.