Disgusted nearby residents clean up the huge mess caused by campers and locals.
A group of Yarrawonga residents have given up on authorities and cleaned up a wayside stop used as a rubbish dump alongside the Murray Valley Highway west of Yarrawonga.
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Residents have been disgusted with the constant dumping of rubbish at the stop near the Brears Road turnoff on the Murray Valley Highway and could not wait any longer for authorities to clean up the eyesore.
More rubbish strewn at the truck stop.
The voluntary clean up included a wide range of food scraps bagged or un-bagged, household and outdoor items, and loose food wrappings. Even a household bin and a lawn mower were located in the truck stop.
“It started off with the bin overflow and it just went from there,” resident Shayne Preer told the Yarrawonga Chronicle.
“Some of it is by locals, with such items as an old lawn mower. It’s both campers and locals who just dump rubbish. They are just lazy pigs. It’s absolutely disgusting.”
Parts of old equipment dumped at the site.
Ron Cugley highlighted that laziness. “It’s not much effort to take their rubbish half a kilometre to the tip,” he said.
“Rubbish breeds rubbish.”
But it has taken many hours by several residents to clean up the substantially increased mess which began prior to Easter and became such an eyesore last week with tonnes of accumulated rubbish then transport it to the Yarrawonga Transfer Station.
Julie Preer added her disgust at the situation. “It’s disgusting but no-one does anything about it,” she said.
“We approached Moira Shire, they thanked us for offering to clear the rubbish away and referred to our pride in keeping the place tidy and said there would be no charge for taking the rubbish to the tip.”
Rubbish has also been dumped in other areas, again on the outskirts of Yarrawonga and including not far from the abattoirs and in Forge’s Lane.
A Moira Shire Council spokesperson confirmed the free use of the Yarrawonga Transfer Station for the rubbish collected from the truck spot beside the Murray Valley Highway and acknowledged the shire’s gratefulness to the nearby residents and their pride in Yarrawonga.
“We have spoken to VicRoads about the situation,” the spokesperson said.
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