Certain departments and agencies tend to become dumping grounds for those with connections.

Throughout northern Westchester, the small or infrequently traveled back roads have become dumping grounds for furniture, appliances and construction debris.

By the fifteenth century they seem to have become dumping grounds for unwanted, unmarriageable or troublesome genteel ladies of little fortune.

"We didn't want vacant lots to become dumping grounds, as others in the neighborhood have."

Other wetlands became dumping areas.

While some of these are temporarily leased to community groups or private individuals, others become dumping grounds or are taken over illegally.

Too often such schools became dumping grounds.

One way or another, some schools become dumping grounds for poor teachers.

The schools became dumping grounds for troubled children and were wisely phased out.

Local residents felt the parcels would become dumping grounds and gathering places and demanded they be enclosed.