{"id":424631,"date":"2026-09-03T03:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424631\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:36:25","slug":"trash-removed-in-northeast-houston-neighborhood-after-residents-turn-to-abc13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424631\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash removed in Northeast Houston neighborhood after residents turn to ABC13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Rosewood community in northeast Houston is <a data-ylk=\"slk:familiar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/trash-removed-northeast-houston-community-abc13-takes-neighbors-concerns-illegal-dumping-city\/19522697\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">familiar<\/a> with illegal dumping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There are multiple areas where people routinely dump their trash, according to ABC13 sources who live in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Every day somebody is back here dumping stuff,&#8221; Charles Thomas said when speaking about the intersection of Teesdale Drive and Woodwick Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ABC13 checked out the site on Wednesday morning, where items such as a mattress, tires, a couch, and more were dumped on the street and grass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eyewitness News reached out to the City of Houston to ask about the trash in the area and a long-term solution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shortly after, the trash was removed from the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City staff told ABC13 they are working on a full response to our questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">People who live in the community told ABC13 they are appreciative that the city comes by to clean up the trash, but they want deterrents to help solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Every time the city cleans it up, they come right back. They dump it here damn near every day,&#8221; Thomas said. &#8220;We done called 311, we called all kinds of numbers, but people just keep doing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Community members told ABC13 that they hope the city will install cameras in the area and more signage warning people about the penalty for illegal dumping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rosewood community in northeast Houston is familiar with illegal dumping. There are multiple areas where people routinely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[147686,56,58,57,28385,27,5869],"class_list":["post-424631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-charles-thomas","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-stuff","tag-texas","tag-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}