Hankerson questions enforcement tools for illegal dumping

Final question.

What are the enforcement tools used by the agency to address illegal dumping?

So, and I'll just, as a point of clarification, when we talk about illegal dumping, we mean dumping from a vehicle.

That's typically not the kind of issues we have around litter baskets.

But the...

Well, I'm going to have to disagree with you.

In my district, I've seen folks pull up to a litter basket in a vehicle, a van, and dump.

And, you know, obviously in talking with members of the department, you know, they'll say, oh, it's household trash.

But I'm like, no, it's not always household trash.

Sometimes it is someone just taking, whether it's debris from a construction site or whatever, and dumping it on a corner at a litter basket.

So that's why I say it that way.

Yeah, and I think that's an important distinction, and every situation is different.

At the end of the day, it's a $4,000 ticket.

If you dump a substantial amount of material from a vehicle, it's a $75,000.

$1 ticket if you improperly dispose of household or commercial waste near a litter basket.

And so, you know, in general, we, when it's that kind of household trash near a litter basket, we'll issue the $75 ticket.

If we see any identifying information, if we have a corner store that has a security camera and can tell us it came from this house or it came from this other business, we can issue a ticket based on that because there's a presumption of responsibility there.

Thank you.