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• Source: Albany Times Union
• Date: October 22, 2006
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• Bylines: Brian Nearing
• Topics: Local Government
• Data Types: Local Data
• Description/Excerpt: With a crisis looming over the city's rapidly filling Rapp Road dump, Mayor Jerry Jennings quietly made a deal with the biggest customer to truck in more trash and pay less. Allied dumping shot up after the price break, from 85,000 tons in 2004 to 140,000 tons last year, the equivalent of 11,000 garbage trucks. The Times Union conducted a computerized analysis of a quarter-million dump bills dating to 2001.