Illegal dumping at a bottle bank located near a church in Waterford has been branded “disgusting behaviour” by a local councillor.
Lismore area councillor Niamh O’Donovan thanked a local woman at Christmas time for reporting the dumping at Affane Church car park in west Waterford.
“It is disgusting behaviour,” said Cllr O’Donovan on Sunday, December 28. “I have it reported. I hope we will have cameras in position soon here. This bring back gets hit very badly and it's so frustrating for the local community to have to deal with such.”
Cllr O’Donovan said she is hoping that cameras will go up soon in the area.
“They were at tender stage a while back. The cameras will not be stagnant in the same places always though - they will move around to the various hot spots for periods. I wish there was a budget for hundreds of them but unfortunately that is not the case.”
By law it has to be signalled to the public that CCTV is in operation at the site, before the CCTV is moved on to elsewhere.
“The hope would be to catch some perpetrators and to also help some hot spot fly-tipping areas remain clean and free of disposal,” added Cllr O’Donovan.