Bearing the load

Here’s what was found dumped in a two-block stretch of alley between K and L streets in Barrio Logan: A stained faux-leather couch, a stack of broken particle board, a pile of wall-to-wall carpeting, a green chair stuffed clumsily into a plastic storage container, the torn black roof of a compact convertible, a traffic cone, the disassembled elements of a what might’ve been the backseat of a car, a box spring, a paint bucket, another box spring (this time with a tire next to it like a little buddy), shelves from a cabinet, the corner piece to an L-shaped living-room sofa set, an overturned fabric couch and, lastly, a blue mattress bent in half and tied with a yellow string and an empty box for a Panasonic flat-screen TV, which were leaning against the corner of a chainlink fence like bored hoodlums.

And that’s just on a Friday.

“You’ll come into your backyard through your driveway, and when you come back out, you can’t leave because someone left a sofa there,” says Vivian Toscano, office manager at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church and a local resident.

The church has volunteers clear the alley every weekend.

“It’s fast, it really is. It’s amazing,” Toscano says.

“When you see one item get left, that’s just a magnet for more stuff,” says Marcus Romero, who owns rental properties in Barrio Logan. “If that couch stays there for four or five days, I guarantee you another one’s going to appear; a mattress is going to appear on top of that in another couple of days, and then it just snowballs and you’ve got a huge mess. That’s just typical of how it works.”

Illegal dumping is a problem citywide, but it’s an epidemic in Barrio Logan and City Heights. More than 63 percent of the 16,883 illegal-dumping calls to the city’s Environmental Services Department during the first half of this fiscal year were placed in these two areas, says the department’s public-information officer, Jose Ysea. The cleanup, handled by city code-enforcement crews, costs more than $2.6 million per year, but the city is only able to collect a few thousand dollars—around a 10th of a percent—in illegal-dumping fines.

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