This dirt from another site was dumped on this burned-out lot.
Some contractors, who are either digging basements or grading lots, are not legally disposing of dirt. It is being dumped on burned-out lots in the Palisades.
Residents are paying the contractor for disposal thinking it was headed for a proper site. Instead, the money saved by the trucker in gas and hauling goes into their pocket and the dirt stays in town. “You’ve paid them a fortune for them dump it a few miles away on burned out lots,” a resident said.
The most recent dumping occurred either on Friday, March 13 or Saturday March 14. One resident who visited her lot this past weekend wrote: “Right now, no homes survived on the 600 block of Bienveneda, and we were sitting ducks as no one to see the dumping.
“If it is happening on lower Bienveneda, who knows how rampant this practice will become?” she said.
Homeowners are encouraged to put up fences until they start rebuilding or sell to discourage dumping. Additionally, anyone seeing dumping onto an empty lot, are urged to take a photo of the truck with its license plate and share the information with LAPD.
The resident added, “It’s such a shame that there are so many such bad people taking advantage of our community.”
This was a second lot where dirt was dumped on Bienveneda.