A sofa on Revere. A box spring and a desk on Lamont. An old washer left behind Everts (with “parts removed from it”).
These are a few of the items reported in illegal dumping complaints last month in the Beach & Bay Press area. So how many of these kinds of complaints are there, and what becomes of them?
Here’s a look, citywide, at how many reports of illegal dumping get filed each month with San Diego’s Get It Done service.
It’s important to note: These numbers are only the reports that come in from regular requests to Get It Done. The full data on trash cleanup also includes thousands more cases where city workers spot trash and file a “self-generated” cleanup report.
“When city employees see an issue such as illegal dumping, we will address it right then, when we’re out in the field,” Franklin Coopersmith, Deputy Director of the Environmental Services Department, told Times of San Diego in an email. “We will enter it as a Get It Done report and take care of it on the spot.”
Here’s a look at resident reports in the city districts in the Mission Beach/PB area during May 2025:
Some reports are open-ended about chronic problems. Others are cases of individual dumped items. Here’s how the city says those reports were resolved as of the beginning of June:
Have you filed a dumping report? Have you had an experience with city cleanup? Let us know at data@timesofsandiego.com.
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