"They came to see who was throwing trash, and hopefully come back and clean um," neighbor Frank Kaleuati said. "They took most of the trash out and hopefully they’re going to come back and clean em up and stuff."
"Probably what they will do is issue a cease and desist for any future type of violations, and then they will go over the evidence and there is a calculation, a formula they will go through, to make a determination whether a fine is in order or not," Environmental Services Director Tim Steinberger said.
If fined it could go as high as 37,500 dollars for violating the clean water act. Still unanswered is the burning question why dump there? The alleged litterbug wouldn’t answer the door for us, no word yet on what if anything they’ve responded to the city.
"It is baffling because you try to provide as much convenience to people as possible so that they can take care of their opala in a proper way, and then to just kind of blatantly throw it in the stream because it’s convenient and closer than say your trash bin," Steinberger said.
"I would say it was dumb. They get one rubbish can for throw their rubbish inside and stuff like that, they ought to keep the community clean," Kaleuati said.
The city says this act caught on tape is not an isolated incident.
"Across the island we hear complaints often from people saying there’s a neighbor that’s just throwing trash and we say will you come forward, and they say well I have to live next door to the person. It’s not an unusual situation, it’s just this time we actually have video on it," Steinberger said.
The State Department of Health says it will wait for the city’s report and what action the city takes before deciding if any additional action is needed. The State Attorney General’s office says it’s looking into whether any criminal laws were violated.
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