The amount of illegal dumping on an Oakland residential street has reached a level not previously seen and neighbors say the city is ignoring to their demands to correct the problem.
On Thursday, an entire block of E Street between 91st and 92nd Avenue in East Oakland was covered with trash and debris, blocking cars and people from walking through their neighborhood.'Just walking through, you see the obvious construction materials and you also see some household items,' resident Anselmo Troy said Thursday.It's a sight you wouldn't expect to see in any residential neighborhood. Troy lives just blocks away and he's been tracking the illegal dumping problem.
What kind of person are you to think that it's OK to just litter our city like this? Our neighborhood.'Dumas and her sister have lived in East Oakland for roughly 50 years. This is the worst they've seen it.'It's just sad,' Dumas said. 'It's just sad to look at. This is not how we live and somebody thinks it's OK just to leave it here.'Residents have tried to catch those illegally dumping in their neighborhood.
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