Trash Mountain Sits On Camden Street

Small mountains of trash sit on a Camden Street, dumped illegally and leaving a major mess for neighbors.

Homeowners are demanding action on Cleveland Avenue, just off the 800 block of 30th street in Camden's Cramer Hill section.

The neighbors call it, "Twin Peaks" as two mountains of illegally dumped trash, 8 feet tall, 30 feet across, sit with a third pile starting just down the way.

Kathleen Morris called Fox 29 when she realized she was embarrassed to let her grand daughter invite a friend over to the house to play.

The rage bubbled over as Morris walks past the mountains of trash sitting just around the corner from her well-maintained home on 30th street.

She's lived here for more than 35 years, and the illegal dumping has never been worse.

"It's almost like the word gets around, that if you want to dump, go dump it here and the city lets them do it so they're allowing them to dump on us."

Everything from tires, to TVs to toilets, tossed off the back of trucks under the cloak of darkness.

The city used to go after the dumpers, or at least clean up the mess they left behind.

Now, say Kathleen and her husband, Ken, you could sled off the heaps of trash.

We checked, and the property does not belong to Conrail- the tracks are just at the top of the nearby embankment- or to the water company next door.

With the piles of trash sitting just off Cleveland Avenue, it would appear this is city property.

"We've called and we've called and we've called and nobody calls you back."

We made some calls this afternoon, and, while a spokesman for the mayor denies it is city property, he says they will clean it up "soon."

The long-term solution might be surveillance cameras mounted out here to catch the dumpers.

Camden has dozens of cameras and plans to add many more, but there's no promise one will be positioned here.