Dealing with unsightly dump sites can be tricky

Michael Varga said he drives by a pile of trash and abandoned trash cans every day on the corner of Rainbow Way and Camino Rainbow in Rainbow.

He said the pile continued to grow, which caused him to contact the county of San Diego as well as the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department to find out what could be done about it.

When he hit a dead end with the two departments, he emailed the Village News.

“I contacted the county who told me that since this was most likely not HazMat, it will take up to a year to clean up,” Varga said in his email. “Until then, we have a sanitation and fire hazard. I...