South LA dumping

Alex Rodriguez is upset with the clothing, debris and garbage that is illegally dumped across the street from his house at Wadsworth Avenue and 107th Street in Watts. “I don’t even want to have my kids out here because of the smell,” says Rodriguez. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Sept. 16, 2014 8:52 AM PT

A homeless couple sleep on an old mattress in an alley between 113th and 114th streets off Graham Avenue, one of many sites of illegal dumping in Watts. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

An alley is littered with illegally dumped garbage behind 1600 E. 113th Street in Watts. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Containers filled with used motor oil are dumped in an alley off the 9700 block of South Parmelee Avenue in Watts. In addition to the oil, vegetables, clothing and a dead dog were also illegally dumped in various parts of the alley. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

An abandoned doll lays face down in overgrown grass in an alley between 90th and 91st streets in Watts. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Illegally dumped debris, including a truck bed cover, spills out of an alley next to the Ranch Market behind 88th Place in Watts. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Police Department officers drive by a fiberglass boat that was illegally dumped along South Mona Boulevard in Watts. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A dead rooster is among the debris in an alley between 95th and 96th streets in Watts. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Wesley Nelson, 51, walks through a debris-laden alley between 95th and 97th streets in Watts. Nelson, a resident of Watts, says that trucks come to the area to dump garbage in alleys. He says that the garbage has been in the alley since February. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)