ILLEGAL DUMPING is costing East Bay residents their money and their health, according to Contra Costa County and the East Bay Municipal Utility District, which cleaned up hot spots last week in western Contra Costa County. 

Dumping increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, and last month the utility district removed eight cars, including a Tesla, and eight tons of trash from a watershed, which is land drained by a river or river system, an EBMUD spokesperson said.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.