WARREN TWP., Ohio - Piles of dirt are mounding up off a bend of the highway in Warren Township.

Ohio Department of Transportation crews have been using it as a dumping site for any “spoils" which is dirt from excavation projects like ditching.

It's a sight that is hard to miss when rounding the on and off ramps between Market Street and State Route 5.

“Once you start seeing piles … you don't know what's going on there,” Tony Bernard, Trumbull County Commissioner said.

The state owns the property and is allowed to dump there. An ODOT spokesperson said the material is not hazardous and this is helping the area by evening out the intense slope that made it hard to mow.

“It’s just dirt,” Justin Chesnic, an ODOT Public Information Officer said. “There’s nothing else in that, there's no co

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