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OT; Dumping of Tires on your land

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soder33

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What do you do with people dumping tires, garbage, yard waste and building material junk on your land. I don't live near the property and only go to it a couple times a month.
I called the county and they gave me a number to call. Turned out to be a waste management Co. They want $275 for a dumpster and then charge $4 per car tire, $10 for a truck tire, $45 for a tractor tire and an additional $40 for any mounted tires. Called the county back and they asked if I wanted to file a criminal charge. They then would send out an inspector to determine what kind of waste it was and if they could find out anything about the person responsible. But it would still be my responsibility to dispose of the items correctly. I'm afraid if they do that, something like abestos would turn up and then who knows what it would cost.
I am posting no trespassing signs on the land, but the county doen't seem to enforce much.
 
Look for any papers with names on it,you may get a lead. Put a game camera in area if you can hide it in trees etc and be able to get pictures. We have same problem in Tx and this has worked.Your Sheriff Dept should take care of this.
 
Had that happen. BandD is right - not much else you can do, and they don't enforce tresspassing laws here either. (in WI, you don't have to post your land - if someone is on private land w/o permission, it's tresspassing) I was lucky enough that they were too lazy to do more than throw the tires in the ditch, and the town chairman saw them and took care of them.
 
shoot you're doing good, we even found a sofa and fridge dumped over the bridge into the creek. But seriously it is a major problem, and very annoying.
 
Around here I call the Sheriff, they make a report, then the county cleans it up and if they find the responsible party the county makes them pay.
 
I will suggest the game camera also.

Couple of items to add to that. Talk with sheriff and tell him what you want to do and make sure he will follow through with the evidence the camera will give.

There are different types of these cameras also. I think it is the infrared ones that can take pix at night without flash. Likely kinda imp coz my bet is this is being done under the cover of night. Of course getting one that doesn't need flash is kinda good coz the types that will dump this stuff would have no problems stealing the camera if they see it flash at them. To that end it is kinda imp to conceal it more than what you would for game.

I do have a outlying farm place that I have had vandalism problems. Thought of doing one of these but haven't YET.

jt
 
Problem is, once it starts to look like a dump site, illegal or not, the rest of the trash dumpers seem to congregate like flies to a cowflop, and deposit even more.
I'd lay in wait, confront them, and make sure it was "return to sender" time, and if they don't haul it away themselves, charge them with trespassing and unlawful disposal of wastes. A quick shot with a digital camera of their licence plate makes the first one you catch guilty of all dumping, innocent or not.
 
That Sh$#@ goes on all the time. We had people fill up our garbage container with soiled diapers and crap. Drove up and dumped it and hurried off before I could get a pix. Now we live next to the county forest ground and the neighbor kids (that come up on the weekends from MIN (with quad motors) dumps their sh#$%^ back in the woods. See em ride past the house carrying trash sacks out and returning back empty handed.They are slowly but surely making a dump out of woods. I"m basically house bound so it's hard (if not impossible) to follow em back in the woods. I can only believe they live in a dump themselves. Bunch of LOW LIFES . LOU
 
Many times if the dumped items contain household trash, there will be mail in it with names and addresses, very helpful in tracking down the offending parties. If it is all just debris and tires, you are probably going to need a camera. I would talk to the Sheriff. He should be able to assist you in getting it stopped. As for what is already there, you are responsible for it now. Great, isn't it?
 
Here, especially tires are a problem to dispose of. Costs for the tire dealer to get them disposed of. Had a dealer that took to buying and shredding large quantities of tires. He sorted them incoming, sold truckloads to trailer manufacturers. Those he couldn"t resale went through a shredder. Now he has a 10 acre pile 30 feet deep, of shredded tire chunks. If that ever catches fire, we"ll have to move about three counties. Authorities are looking into government help to get the mess cleaned up. He made a small fortune, gambled it away, and now, last I heard, is in jail for selling a bunch of Firestone tires that should have been destroyed.

I get a couple tires dumped on my place every year. I cut them up, and burn them in little pieces with routine trash fires. Not enough to make much smoke, and call attention to my transgression! I know, burning is not a acceptable solution. Lots of tires are being dumped on farmer"s land, state forest lands, etc. Not happy either.
 
In Memphis there is a coal fired electric plant. A few years ago they tried burning shredded tires for fuel. Their stockpile of shredded tires did in fact catch fire once and it took days for it to be put out. That was the end of their experiment.

slim
 
Maybe get two game cameras. One Elcheapo with the flash and another well hidden with infrared flash to watch the lowlifes as they dump the trash and steal the one camera they know about. Then you may have them nailed for dumping, trespassing, and stealing. TDF
 
mount a couple of simulated security cameras on poles where they access the area and post a "smile you are on camera signs" add an old car radio antenna on the pole so it looks like a wireless camera. makes em think twice. here is a link
simulated security camera
 
The epa,county can force you to clean it up.My sister lives out of state and someone dumped thousands of tires in a big gully over the last two years.It cost here 30000 to clean them up.
 
Sounds pretty messed up that she had to pay for someone elses crime.
It sounds like a tire shop did this.....How many people have thousands of tires?
 
Hello: I would NOT count on the county cleaning up anything on private property... No way, here. In fact they would likely send EPA after you if you lived her (mn). ag
 
It was a tire shop,but it was a corporation that was sold to another tire chain so the original corporation was dissolved.There was no one legally to pursue.
 
Sounds like you been listening to "Alice's Restaurant". Careful, you might end up on the Group W bench! ;o)
 
The paper mill that I retired from burns a lot of shredded tires, never had a problem. No large stockpile to catch fire, mix them with the bark and shredded biomass. It is primarily a coal fired boiler but probably burns as much tires and biomass as coal, has a very good scrubbing system.
 
I worked for more than 30 years in the state forests of Connecticut and the dumping was frustrating to us too. Part of the problem comes from the fact that towns want payment for dumping white goods(stoves, washes, dryers, etc.) batteries, tires, stumps, essencially anything. When I approached the town about cleaning it up, I was told the state forest would have to pay the town for what debris their residents left on forest lands.In the end, I had the crew pile the junk along the town road and guess what.... the town picked it up and took it away... no charge, but I did not tell the town that it was us who was piling their residents trash there. I had found that good samaritans would often pull stuff out of ditches and leave it along the roadsides where the town would pick it up,so we were doing the same thing.
I always figured if a town charged an extra mil on the taxes, then stuff could be brought to the landfill at no charge. I think far less would be dumped on back roads........just my 2 cents.
Cal
 
A couple small things first of all I'm glad with my temper I don't own a gun because people who do that are just plain white trash with that said I'm guessing you have a driveway to that area so I would put up a post and cable gate with a good all weather master lock to block their path because those individuals want an easy way in and out so if caught in the act they don't want their trashmobile hung up crossing a ditch. I would suggest making more frequent visits and taking picture to reference from. Number two if you have some neighbors close by see if they can keep an eye out for you for a small price maybe a bottle of Jack at Christmas time or some small fee or hunting rights, believe me that works!
 
A game warden spotted them and turned her in to the epa.It was to late to do anything.The county health dept said if they were covered he didn't care.
 
If you can get a tag # or find mail with a name, why not add a few items to the trash pile they left. A few empty ether cans, glass bottles, ice chests, etc, will have the police paying them a visit.. Looking for a crack lab..
 
If you got a drive the dumper's are coming in on post it NO TRESPASSING and then take a 2x4 put a bunch of 4" nails through and lay it across the drive. If its got some high grass in the drive it makes it better. Most likely they are dumping at night so they won't see the 2x4. Just pick the 2x4 up before you pull in. Worked good for me. The man across the road from my drive called me and I got to my property just in time to call the cops to report trespassing and dumping the a$$holes couldn't go very far with 4 flats. Cop thought it was funny as hell.
 
Something similar happened to my son. He bought an old farmstead he's going to build on next year. Some one dumped over fifty tire's behind the barn. He called the county sheriff but there's not much they can do. The township has a junk amnesty every year and they allowed him to drop of the tires for free. I thought that was pretty good of them. Had to be some one who sells tire's. Try setting up a game camera.
 
Once a year they our county has a free recycling of tires at our fair grounds. Talk to your state's dept of enviromental mang. they may have a similar program.

I had 6 tractor tires. Put an add on craig'slist, free tractor tire sand box. Got rid of all of them. Became someone's else's problem.
 
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