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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
• Rappehimnoek N«w» Staff Writer
Vacationers driving to the seashore on the Norfolk-Virginia Beach Expressway pass one of Virginia’s most prominent environmental success stories: Mount Trashmore.
The city of Virginia Beach boastfully proclaims: “We built ourselves a mountain of fun” with 640,000 tons of garbage. That’s the weight of the compacted refuse that makes up Mount Trashmore, 68 feet high and 800 feet across at its peak.
Located smack in the middle of a densely developed residential and commercial area, the mountain of garbage is the high point in a 160acre park that includes playgrounds, picnic areas, tennis, volleyball and basketball courts and Lake Trashmore, a stocked fresh water lake that entices anglers with citationsized walleyes and striped bass.
The park is host for the state’s soap box derby championships, skateboard competition, a waterski
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