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The Progress-Index PETERSBURG – For decades the residents on Pocahontas Island have been dealing with a daily menace. The narrow residential passage on Rolfe Street is the only access route for trucks going to the wastewater treatment plant on the island’s northeast corner. Six-wheeled tanker trucks have hauled biomaterials to and from the plant since it was built in 1955. Sometime over the decades, those trucks have become full on Tractor Trailers. These 18-wheeled trucks take up nearly the entire width of Rolfe Street, Pocahontas’ most populated road. An island resident counted 38 trucks in one day, or nearly four trucks an hour. Their sheer size has the force to rattle houses and has tormented the area’s mostly elderly residents. ....