Illegal dumping

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Let's go now to, uh, Brendan Diver of the Inishowen Guide, talking about, unfortunately, more illegal dumping.

Hi, Brendan.

Good morning to you.

He says county leaders will reassess the issue and look for a more focused approach.

The city of Milwaukee is putting more eyes on illegal dumping.

There are some new surveillance cameras headed to the near west side.

The city and the near west side partners are installing eight cameras to monitor problem areas where people have been accused of leaving garbage, tires, furniture and other debris.

Back then, the areas identified were at Turret Rocks in Enniscorthy, the Tesco Bring Bank at Distillery Road, Wexford Town, Priory Lane, New Ross, the Tesco in Gorey, the Tesco at Hewittsland in New Ross, and the Bring Banks at the Old Railway Depot in Wellington Bridge.

It was hoped back then that these cameras could be used to prosecute illegal dumping and in the long run, clean up what have become notorious black spots for litter and waste.

Councillor Murphy says six is a good start, but there's a fair process to go through if we want to get any more.

We only have six areas where we can actually have CCTV to catch illegal dumping.

To bring more forward in the county, we have to get permission for each and every one of those cameras for its location.

It has to be put on public display so people know that it's happening.

And they give that area a bad name and most of the time it's someone coming in from the outside that's doing the dumping.

It's important to remember that this is just a minority who engage in these kinds of behaviours and that many people, indeed most people across the county, do their best to try and follow the rules.

Signs, you know, it's actually a million.

The sign says it's a million dollar fine for illegal dumping.

Because, you know, where we live, unfortunately, scrubby country, you know, the people go up the back and they dump stuff up there all the time.

I mean, Adam and Graham and I are in Laird State Forest, and we found a whole generational dump.

After nearly two decades of habitat restoration efforts, the Trinity River Audubon Center has transformed its site from the illegal deepwood landfill to a natural oasis.

But illegal dumping still threatens parts of Dallas' southern sector.

KERA's Ava Thompson has more.

So behind me, just outside of the Audubon Center property, there's this beautiful, lovely hill.

The neighborhood directly adjacent to what became the Deepwood dump transitioned from a white neighborhood to a black neighborhood.

And once it did that, the city stopped enforcing its dumping laws and it issued a permit to the owner of the site to fill the site with solid waste.

She says that land use permit paved the way for more than a decade of illegal dumping next to residential homes in Deepwood.

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