Hammond, IN Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)

018 bars anyone from transporting and depositing or dumping garbage, trash, cinders, debris, refuse or other waste material within Hammond, Indiana that was not produced inside the city, whether the drop happens on public or private land or into public or private waters. The ordinance carves out three narrow exceptions: a property owner may deposit waste generated on their own contiguous property that lies outside the city, an adjacent municipality may dispose of ordinary domestic garbage on privately owned land with the owner's authorization, and clean fill material from outside the city may be used to raise low or submerged ground, provided the fill does not exceed the nearest street grade by more than one foot (or ten feet for ornamental terraces against a building) and sits above 575 feet mean sea level or four feet below the seasonal water table.

019, separately bans importing or contracting to import waste into the city for disposal. 022, which also declares illegally dumped material a common nuisance subject to abatement.