Trash dumping in your neighborhood: See the latest hotspots
Different neighborhoods have different patterns of illegal dumping reports. This week, we take a look at how much cleanup is happening in your area.


We’ve talked before about illegal dumping in San Diego’s neighborhoods. This week we take a look at how reports went in June, for neighborhoods across San Diego.
Many reports of dumping are cleaned up the same day. Others take a few days. Here’s one way to visualize it. This map shows a dot for each report, and colors each area based on how many days it took to clean things up.
Individual cases cleaned up in a day are colored light blue. Areas with more reports, or where individual reports took more days to clean up, shift from blue to red. Use the left and right arrows to click through each Times of San Diego area, and zoom in or out any time.
Citywide, there’s plenty of variation in dumping reports. (A few weeks ago, we looked at dumping in Downtown News, Uptown News, and in the Peninsula Beacon, Beach & Bay, La Jolla Village News and Mission Times Courier areas.)
Neighborhoods in the east, southeast and uptown see some of the largest numbers of reports:
It’s important to note: The numbers mapped here are only the reports that come in from regular requests to the city’s “Get It Done” hotline, website and app. The full data on trash cleanup also includes thousands more cases where city workers file a “self-generated” cleanup report.
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So is there a trend in dumping reports overall? Here’s how reports looked over the past four years:
Want more details on last month’s reports? This map has all the data.
Have you had an experience reporting illegal dumping? Let us know at data@timesofsandiego.com.
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