Fresno County supervisors combatting illegal dumping

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Loads of garbage beryllium on Fresno County roads adjacent Valentine and Nielsen.

There are tires, dense equipment, and couches, but that's not all.

"Boats, refrigerators, cars," said Fresno County nonmigratory David Rojo. "Dressers, clothes, conscionable astir anything, thing you could perchance astir apt person successful your house, they propulsion it retired there."

Daniel Rojo lives adjacent 1 of the 500-plus sites reported successful the region to person amerciable dumping and tells Action News it's downright embarrassing.

"Its existent frustrating due to the fact that we person radical coming over, and your like, we can't bash thing astir it, they travel successful the mediate of the night," said Rojo.

He says conscionable 2 weeks ago, helium saw crews cleaning up the trash, and it's already piling up again without an extremity successful sight.

"It seems similar the people, they figure, well, look, we've already done it, we tin support coming back, and we tin support coming back, and they'll support picking it up, and we're not gonna get charged," said Rojo.

Rojo believes the occupation is however costly oregon acold it tin beryllium to instrumentality items to a transportation presumption oregon dump, which is wherefore those with A&G towing who person a concern adjacent the soiled dumping instrumentality enactment into their ain hands.

"Its causing deterioration and teardrop connected our equipment, everybody dumps retired here, cipher cleans it up," said Anthony Lopez with A&G Towing. "We cleanable it up ourselves."

Chairman and committee supervisor Nathan Magsig says they are alert of the trash troubles.

"A mates of months ago, the committee of supervisors, we took enactment connected an item, mounting speech much wealth to nationalist works truthful they could prosecute further contractors to spell successful and cleanable up a batch of these spots passim the county," said Fresno Co. Board Supervisor, Nathan Magsig.

Rojo says helium notices the occupation is not arsenic atrocious successful metropolis areas, but portion the metropolis of Fresno is capable to person garbage collectors connected staff, region nationalist works says it's different.

"The region does not person that, adjacent radical that unrecorded successful the region and declaration retired their garbage service. They're contracting it retired with contractors, truthful the region does not person garbage postulation service," said Wendy Nakagawa with Fresno County Public Works.

The region is inactive successful the process of hiring those 4 contractors.

But Rojo believes things won't alteration until there's enforcement and has a connection for those dumping trash.

"Quit, discontinue doing it man, however would they similar if we went and did this to them and threw it successful beforehand of their yards, they wouldn't similar it, and we don't similar it either," said Rojo.

To study amerciable dumping, you tin telephone region nationalist works oregon usage the Fresno County Connect app.

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