{"id":424981,"date":"2026-09-03T12:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424981\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:04:15","slug":"trash-removed-in-northeast-houston-neighborhood-after-residents-turn-to-abc13-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424981\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash removed in northeast Houston neighborhood after residents turn to ABC13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas  (KTRK) &#8212; The Rosewood community in northeast Houston is <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/trash-removed-northeast-houston-community-abc13-takes-neighbors-concerns-illegal-dumping-city\/19522697\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">familiar<\/a> with illegal dumping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There are multiple areas where people routinely dump their trash, according to ABC13 sources who live in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#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=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Shortly after, the trash was removed from the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">City staff told ABC13 they are working on a full response to our questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#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=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; The Rosewood community in northeast Houston is familiar with illegal dumping. There are multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[147780,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-424981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-147780","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424981","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=424981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}