L.A. councilman calls for quicker cleanup of human waste

Los Angeles Councilman Bill Rosendahl said Thursday that he plans to convene a working group of agencies to prevent or better respond to incidents of human waste dumping like the three that occurred in Venice recently. Rosendahl said in a statement that the fact it took several days for the waste to be removed in Venice was “upsetting.”

The group would include city and county health and law enforcement authorities. They would be charged with developing a quicker and clearer process for reporting, responding to, cleaning up, investigating and prosecuting such incidents.

In addition to Rosendahl’s office, the group would include the Los Angeles Department of Public Works, Los Angeles County health and sanitation officials, the Los Angeles Police and Fire Departments, and the offices of City Atty. Carmen Trutanich and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

“The dumping of human waste onto our streets is reprehensible and should never happen,” Rosendahl said in a statement. “But if it does, it must be cleaned up immediately. It should take one call to any agency to get action.” Rosendahl said that when an agency gets a call regarding the dumping of human waste, a notification alert should be sent to a range of responsible agencies to ensure a coordinated response.

-- Martha Groves

Comments

[Paul D]

Of course the article does not make clear that Bill Rosendahl knew of the spill almost immediately so how is it that he is the one complaining about a slow response time. He is certainly NOT the hero in this situation.

[Walter Moore]

Rosendahl is such a phony. KFI interviewed the woman who called the police in the first place, and she said she called his office and go ZERO response. Only when a reporter from the radio station got involved did ANYONE at City Hall lift a finger to help.

[Former USC Professor]

Heck, the County doesn't even pick up the human turd in front of the main entrance to the Downtown Criminal Courts Building.

Good luck your Honor.

[Tom Russian]

He is a little late in getting involved! The "spill" was not there for a few days, BUT, SIX days. He has a meeting last week about the subject, but this week he claims he has no idea of what is going on. He need to get involved and not play the political games. Do your job and do what is right for the people of Venice! The only reason that he is even talking about it now is due to radio talk show host "John and Ken". This illegal parking of RV's and dumping has been going on for years. The woman arrested for dumping 100 gallons of human waste, di not even have charges filed against her. She was then seen dumping human waste again one week later. CLEAN UP ARE CITY!

[Richard]

Grab one of these squatters and let them clean it up

[Brian]

Let's send out the troops of unemployed workers with brooms, shovels and trash cans and clean up this city.

[Brian]

Let's send out the troops of unemployed workers with brooms, shovels and trash cans and clean up this city.

[Joe]

Brian: have you forgotten where you live? It is unconstitutional to make parasites and freeloaders do their fair share.

[Marley]

Arrest ALL of the RV dumpers and rather than keep them locked up in jail at taxpayer expense sentence them to cleaning up their filfth. If they refuse impound and DESTROY their RV's. It's simply disgusting that any human would think it's okay to dump their waste out on the streets anyway. Yuk!

[Basqueroots]

Marley, maybe instead of destroying their RVs, sell them to help pay for the cleanup costs.
Really think about this. These people are dumping their sewage in the street! The residents are being exposed to hazards from the diseases possible from raw sewage. Did you hear that? Sewage!