“We can do an area, then we move on to another area and the area we did maybe a month or two ago has slipped back,” said DPW Director Leo Perrotta, noting that having residents speak dozens of different languages across the city has made getting the message across more challenging.Providence paid $459,000 in 2018 for rejected loads; in 2019 it increased to $476,000. This year, the city is on target to pay nearly $575,000 for what just a few years ago was accepted at no charge.

<p>&ldquo;We can do an area, then we move on to another area and the area we did maybe a month or two ago has slipped back,&rdquo; said DPW Director Leo Perrotta, noting that having residents speak dozens of different languages across the city has made getting the message across more challenging.Providence paid $459,000 in 2018 for rejected loads; in 2019 it increased to $476,000. This year, the city is on target to pay nearly $575,000 for what just a few years ago was accepted at no charge.</p>

A collection of interviews,  press conferences and news actualities from the Newsroom of the Providence Journal, Providence, Rhode Island.

News interviews and actualities from  The Providence Journal

From the Newsroom: The Providence Journal

A collection of interviews,  press conferences and news actualities from the Newsroom of the Providence Journal.

Providence paid $459,000 in 2018 for rejected loads; in 2019 it increased to $476,000. This year, the city is on target to pay nearly $575,000 for what just a few years ago was accepted at no charge.

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