Fly Tipping

Date:

Jul 13, 2016

When local resident Jim Bryson was checking the site of an upcoming community event near Luggate this week, he was disgusted to find dumped carcases close to a popular picnic spot.

The Luggate Community Association is preparing for a working bee at the historic Red Bridge reserve in early August to clean up household rubbish such as television sets, microwaves and furniture which has been dumped at the site.

Mr Bryson said he had been expecting to find some litter but was revolted to discover the fresh remains of a boar and fallow deer. “I was shocked and disgusted that anyone would leave animal carcases in a place like this,” he said.

Fly tipping, where people dump rubbish and unwanted possessions in remote places, is an intermittent problem throughout the Queenstown Lakes District.

Regulatory Manager Lee Webster said anyone found to have been dumping such waste on Council land, including the Red Bridge site, was liable for a $400 fine.

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