I hope the witness will confirm this with the city. The D A office will go after them if the witness will sign an affidavit. Me and my neighbor did this last year and the city found and fined them for illegal dumping. Thank for getting the information.

Well done! I think her name is spelled with 2 n's, though.

Some great sleuthing here. I suggest making a police report with this info - unsure if public works cares enough to follow through on the punishment part of dumping.

Great Detective work on this one.

Glad this is being tracked. A few years ago someone was doing this from a pickup truck next door at 3152 High St, and WORSE, throwing the debris from the back parking lot into the creek. When confronted they took off and covered their plate. That is a little harder to do from 3150, but it still borders the creek. A lot of that junk is still on the banks there overgrown and too difficult to remove with volunteer crews.

Please go with the police report, even if it's only to the anonymous tip line (wish I knew the number!).

Illegal Dumping

If dumping is in progress, call the Oakland Police non-emergency line: (510) 777-3333

Tips for submitting evidence:
Photos of vehicle license plates are ideal. If a photo is not available, write down the license plate number.
Include time, date and location.
Include your contact info – the City must contact you to verify evidence.
More information is always better – photos of company names or logos on vehicles involved in dumping may be helpful.
Avoid confrontation when documenting illegal dumping incidents.

Unfortunately, the online form only has an option to report illegal dumping on private property by an anonymous person.

I'm not clear where we are supposed to report dumping that has already occurred, but it says for all else, call the non-emergency OPD line above. I'll see if I can get it clarified.

Thanks, Eilee, for you follow-up.

In order for the city to go after illegal dumpers,

for public property, contact PWA Call Center.
SeeClickFix at least has your email address, unless you decide to report anonymously.
The other options are the email address pwacallcenter@oaklandnet.com
or www.oaklandpw.com

I'd like to know if folks who are reporting witnessed dumping ARE being contacted and if the city attorney's office is going after illegal dumpers, as promised.

City of Oakland Public Works Agency addressed this issue on 11/26/2013, service request # 492054.

As I mentioned in this thread. We reported to PWA call center about illegal dumping. We were contacted about 10 days later by the D A office. We agreed to act as witness's and filed out the forms. My impression is that having witness's willing to testify the dumpers are more willing to pay fine than fight it out in court. We did not have to go to court.

Good to know. Thank you!

Good to hear about your experience, D.C. Hope this encourages the anonymous reporter to follow thru with the D.A.'s.

Thanks for fixing this issue!

I wanted to thank everyone for comments/suggestions. I also filed a police report (T 13017255) along with this report to Public Works. Haven't heard back from the police or city, but will call today and make a supplemental report to both, requesting action against the person who rented the truck and the dumper. I'm sure they dump like this regularly thruout the city. I did at least get U-Haul to ban the renter from renting trucks again, and manager and I agreed that they probably dumped somewhere in the city every time they rented a truck from U-Haul. I'll let everyone know what happens with police and city, but based on past experience I'm not very optimistic that they'll take any action.

The City of Oakland Public Works Agency has received this issue. It is registered as service request # 492467. Please check back for status updates or contact us directly at (510) 615-5566.

Thanks for the update and for all your efforts!

I didn't know dumping was so widespread in Maxwell Park until I started following issues on this app. Several weeks ago on a quiet Sunday afternoon one man was driving a truck and two men were in the back pushing out debris, broken glass, and junk down Knowland & Birdsall in front of our homes. I think the license plate was covered because the truck bed was down & no one was able to get that info. I hope all of these criminals can be found and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!!

City of Oakland Public Works Agency addressed this issue on 12/03/2013, service request # 492467.

Thanks for fixing this issue!

Thanks for fixing this issue!

I think they hit my street last night. A woman driver with some men in a u-haul dumped some mattresses and other stuff in middle of street before I yelled at them and they wildly drove away .http://seeclickfix.com/issues/841660-illegal-dumping

City Attorney's Office completed investigation and transferred complete case file to City Administrator's Office 1/29/2014. City Administrator's Office issued citation on 2/18/2014.

Thanks for reporting it Propmanager and thanks to the City Attorney's Office for pursuing it and letting us know what the outcome was.

Thanks for fixing this issue!

Thanks for fixing this issue!

That's great! Thanks!