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  • Cameras to be installed, catching illegal dumpers Play Video

    October 2, 2019 6:32 PM

    BATON ROUGE - The City-Parish will soon start taking pictures of illegal dumpers in the act. The 16 cameras arrived in the mail on Monday. The camera boxes include a Canon camera, LED flash, motion detector, solar panel, and speaker with the potential to broadcast messages. The camera can... more »
  • On Your Side investigation: Chemicals found in groundwater in Ascension neighborhood Play Video

    May 15, 2019 1:09 PM

    PRAIRIEVILLE - The Department of Environmental Quality says it's monitoring chemicals, tied to a decades-old dumping, that was found in an Ascension Parish neighborhood. The department has been monitoring the neighborhood on Tiger Heights Road after drums of chemicals were found buried in the early 80s. DEQ says equipment... more »
  • More mail dumped as garbage found in Baton Rouge Play Video

    March 12, 2019 6:09 PM

    BATON ROUGE - A property manager says they found a bag full of mail left for garbage. Debbie Henning manages several units as a realtor at Sherwood Forest Townhomes off S. Flannery Road in Baton Rouge. Henning tells 2 On Your Side the property has seen some illegal... more »
  • Dozens of used tires dumped in flood victim's backyard Play Video

    June 21, 2018 4:34 PM

    BATON ROUGE - A flood victim, who is waiting to rebuild her Park Forest home, recently discovered a mess dumped in her backyard. Demetra DeRouen says she has no idea who turned her property into a dumping ground. There are at least 70 used tires that were left on... more »
  • Abandoned trailer park turned into dumping ground Play Video

    May 8, 2018 6:19 PM

    BATON ROUGE - An abandoned trailer park has turned into a dumping ground for household items, car parts, among other things. The property makes up about seven acres of land at the southwest corner of Prescott Road and Victoria Drive near Airline Highway. Google Maps identifies it as Merrydale... more »
  • Shopping carts litter neighborhood, man wants them gone Play Video

    July 18, 2017 5:50 PM

    BATON ROUGE - Dozens of shopping carts from stores on College Drive in Baton Rouge are not staying in the parking lots. They can be found in ditches and on streets far away from the businesses where they belong and many people are tired of seeing them. Vernon Pitcher... more »
  • New cameras catching litterbugs in Ascension Play Video

    May 4, 2016 5:32 PM

    ASCENSION PARISH - Four men from Ascension Parish and a Zachary woman were ticketed for littering over the past week in three separate incidents. The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office says they responded to a complaint of trash dumping at the intersection of Saint Elmo Road and Stanford Levy Road... more »
  • Stinky smell causes uproar after dumping in Holden Play Video

    September 29, 2015 6:48 PM

    HOLDEN - Some people say a nasty odor is keeping them from enjoying the outdoors in Livingston Parish. The residents in Holden say the smell is coming from piles of something dumped by a company named Darpro. Darpro turns used cooking grease and oil into diesel and says it is... more »

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