“There are chemicals in that cement that are going in the ground. You know how much cement it will take to fill that hillside?”

Scrim said he had given one of Henderson’s neighbors permission to dump cement along a hill off Neshannock Boulevard, saying he had looked at the load and determined the materials were safe to dump.

Dumping on city property is allowed if permission is received and if materials that qualify as “clean fill,” such as gravel, cement or soil, are used.

“As far as clean fill, yes,” Scrim said. “If it will eliminate the erosion problem and they get permission, then yes.”

Scrim said private property owners sometimes ask for clean fill to aid erosion problems.

“But it has to be clean fill,” said Scrim, who has the authority to give residents permission to dump.

“You need to ask. You can’t just indiscriminately dump wherever you want.

“It’s the exception rather than the rule,” he continued. “I certainly don’t encourage it.”