Residents demand action to clear trash in East Bay reservoir
KTVU's Ann Rubin reports.
LIVERMORE, Calif. - Community members in Alameda County are outraged by the huge amount of trash blown into the Bethany Reservoir in Alameda County.
They believed it was coming from a nearby landfill and were demanding action.
"To me, it looked like a third-world country, to be honest," said Brody Light of Mountain House.
Residents of nearby Mountain House came with cameras to document it. They believed high winds carried trash from the Altamont Landfill.
Because the reservoir was mostly closed for dam reconstruction, they said no one knew to complain sooner. "The landfill that sits up on the hill was supposed to have containment fencing for debris. They're missing a huge section of their fencing and it's been out for the last three, four months," said Michael Jacob, another Mountain House resident.