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A stinky situation is piling up for the U.S. Forest Service.
As the Fourth of July holiday approaches, several bathrooms up Utah County’s canyons are closed because they’ve reached capacity and the Forest Service is unable to pump the toilets.
The issue is the Forest Service was held up on getting a contract approved to get someone to pump the toilets due to changes at the federal level, according to Utah County Administrator Ezra Nair.
County Commissioner Skyler Beltran added via social media that Forest Service budget cuts are affecting personnel and services.
The county is stepping in to pump some of the toilets itself, including in American Fork Canyon, where Nair estimated almost half of the bathrooms were closed.
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