Illegal dumping, Milwaukee woman fed up as mounds grow [Video]

MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee woman is fed up as trash piles up just a few steps from her home.

Auriea Mosley has lived in her home for 40 years. The 70-year-old said illegal dumping has been a problem in the neighborhood for some time but, over the past few weeks, it has become a wasteland.

“It’s close to my house, and I am trying to keep up my property,” she said. “Every time I turn around, there’s garbage all over the place.”

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Mosley said people are illegally dumping everything from bricks and concrete to mattresses. There’s even a fish tank in the growing piles of trash near 14th and Burleigh. Some of the junk is dumped on city-owned property.

“Frustrated” is an understatement for Mosley.

“What kind of person are you? I mean, you are too cheap to pay where you …