Neighbors disgusted by trash dumped under Roosevelt Boulevard overpass

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Officers respond to complaints astir area

Neighbors disgusted by trash dumped nether Roosevelt Boulevard overpass

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville constabulary were called this week to analyse heaps of dumped trash that person sparked outrage among neighbors.

The determination of the dumping crushed is nether the overpass from Roosevelt Boulevard to Interstate 10 adjacent Post Street and McDuff Avenue wherever the Murray Hill and Riverside neighborhoods connect.

Officers responded conscionable earlier noon Wednesday to complaints astir the country wherever piles of trash, covering and electronics could beryllium seen. There was besides trash wrong a port-a-potty. The officers took photos arsenic portion of their probe into what they judge is an amerciable dumping tract adjacent homes.

Trash tin beryllium seen nether the overpass from Roosevelt Boulevard to Interstate 10. (WJXT)

“These things should beryllium caught precise quickly. To fto them fester and beryllium determination for weeks until they commencement to stink, and, of course, you get the rats and everything else, it’s not a bully concern astatine all,” said neighbour Michael Hampson.

Neighbor Tyra Smuee said: “When you person stink and garbage, it reflects connected the assemblage and it says the assemblage is not taking attraction of itself. And so, of course, it brings spot values down. Who wants to unrecorded adjacent to that? No one. Yuck.”

Other neighbors person taken to societal media to explicit their disgust astir surviving adjacent to filth.

“It looks disgusting. What a shame,” Carol wrote.

Patty wrote: “Drove by it this morning. It’s nasty.”

News4Jax reached retired to City Hall to spot what’s being done to combat amerciable dumping and is awaiting a response. In the past, the metropolis has said amerciable dumping is simply a citywide occupation and it’s hard to convict idiosyncratic of amerciable dumping unless constabulary either drawback them successful the enactment oregon person surveillance video arsenic evidence.

The officers who News4Jax spoke with said they would study this to metropolis officials truthful that a unit tin beryllium scheduled to travel retired and cleanable this up.