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The dead cat has disappeared, but someone just dumped a load of brushwood and a broken office chair to accompany the pile of tires currently occupying the spot next to the tree. Come and get it!

The problems on this corner have not abated. There's now a pile of drapery, a shopping cart and a lot of broken glass around the tree, adjacent to a new load of furniture, mattresses, a mirror, tires, and miscellaneous construction debris. Just schedule a weekly pickup here, and save us having to write about every single pile of trash as it accumulates.

There's plenty of garbage piled around that tree right now, including a desk and something that's smelling worse each day. Around the corner on Pippin there's a set of sofas - please take it all.

There's a pile of clothing around the base of that tree now, and a "Rugmaster" machine tucked up underneath it. Yesterday someone also dumped a big load of who-knows-what wrapped in black-plastic a little ways down Prune St. Once a month or so, someone from the city comes and picks stuff up here, but there's usually more by the next day. When you finally come this time, you might also get the pails of whatever-it-is stacked on the sidewalk around the corner on San Leandro. We need a more systematic solution to the illegal dumping issue here; it just keeps getting worse. How about replacing that dummy camera on the telephone pole at Prune and San Leandro with one that actually works? And what about posting the phone number whoever's supposed to be monitoring it, so at least the crimes that are committed on video get followup?

Last I saw (yesterday) there were 3 separate piles of debris (clothing, construction waste, pot-growing pots, shopping cart filled with garbage, etc.) resalong the north side of Prune between San Leandro and Pippin, and a collection of bulging black garbage bags on the south side. But there's probably more stuff by now...

After ignoring it for more than a month, yesterday the City finally cleaned up what had become a huge mess, mounds of garbage that extended from both sides of Prune street, so that cars had to take turns going through since there wasn't room for them to pass side by side (see photo attached). I don't see how the City can justify letting things slide for so long. I tried calling Peter Dunlop (434-5124), who's supposed to be the supervisor in charge of maintaining the streets in this area, but he never returned my call. The next time there's an election in this town, we have to get rid of the whole administration, and put in people with some new ideas, who will keep this part of the city from looking (and smelling) like Calcutta during a garbage strike. I'd love to close this issue, but by now there's probably more stuff dumped there - it never stays clean for more than a day or so.

Another day, another pile of garbage surrounding that lone street tree. Please clean it up before people get the idea that this is the free dump site they've been looking for.

A fine flowering of hypodermic needles surround the little tree now - does that require a Hazmat team to pick up?

Anyone want a used vacuum cleaner? How about some stuff to try picking up with it? The junk has almost buried the tree at this point...

The little tree now has a trailer parked next to it, in which people have set up housekeeping. They're building a pile of garbage in back of it, which will soon engulf the tree if nothing more is done.

There are now a couple of festering blue bags of garbage at the base of the little tree. And another RV has moved in down Prune St., running its generator constantly...

There's a heap of garbage accumulating around that tree; please pick it up before it grows any bigger.

No action; now there's a pile of tires on the sidewalk west of the tree.

That little tree seems to be a magnet for trash. No sooner is a pile cleared away than more appears overnight. There's more accumulating now, please come get it before the tree's altogether engulfed.

It's building up around that tree again - please come get it.

Almost a year has gone by, but few days without new piles of garbage, abandoned cars, and human waste deposits. Right now there's a growing pile at the corner of San Leandro St, sofas and more debris on the south side of Prune, and more junk around the corner on Pippin. Someone is busily accumulating junk under the BART tracks, where he appears to be setting up housekeeping. This place needs pickups daily, or at least weekly. .