Trash piled up at an illegal dumping site in D.C. for months without any action. Then, a neighbor called News4.

Gwendolyn Gregory said she watched for months as an abandoned trash dumpster overflowed with garbage on a short road that connects the North Capitol Street overpass between Catholic University and the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Northwest. Old mattresses and what appeared to be construction debris littered the ground by the dumpster.

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"When I first saw it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And when I was coming up the hill, I was like, 'Oh my God. This is crazy.' There was trash all around the dumpster. I mean, and my greatest concern was a rat infestation that could probably crawl over to the Soldiers' Home," she s

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