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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Madeline Link

Illegally dumped waste costs ratepayers $30K, takes days to clean up

Singleton Council Senior Ranger Heath Dowling at the Wattle Ponds Road site. Picture supplied

ILLEGALLY dumped waste has cost ratepayers $30,000 and taken council crews three days to clean up, igniting calls for people to consider their impact on the community.

A 42 tonne haul of white goods, furniture, household garbage, car bodies and parts, building rubble and construction waste was left strewn on a site at Wattle Ponds Road at Singleton Heights.

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