SACRAMENTO — Illegal dumping in Sacramento’s south Natomas has neighbors frustrated and disgusted after they woke up Tuesday to garbage lining their street.
It happened on Edmonton and Iberian drives at around 6:15 a.m.
“I just woke up and it was a snow, a sea of trash,” said Devin Flores, who lives near the street turned dump. “It was like snow almost.”
A home’s security camera captured what appeared to be a dump truck spilling out all kinds of trash across the typically quiet street.
“Cars couldn’t drive through it,” resident Lisa Framiglio said. “It was too big.”
Other neighborhoods like nearby Del Paso said it happens constantly despite signs posted that dumping is illegal.
CBS13 drove around the area finding other fields near neighborhoods littered with piles of garbage.
Though it was a first for the neighbors on Edmonton Drive, they said they are concerned it will happen again.
The City of Sacramento’s Recycling and Solid Waste Division shared these numbers from six months in 2024 that showed the number of 311 illegal dumping calls it received: