Warning follows post on illegal dumping 21/01/2016

WORDS AND PICTURE BY GEOFF VIVIAN

This is the kind of local story I love to do, and I will tell you why.

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It is about an everyday citizen trying to do the right thing by his community and his family, despite apathy and opposition.

Mr McPherson liked to cycle the gravel paths around a large bush block near his home with his kids.

These paths had become increasingly blocked by illegally dumped rubbish, the last item being a whole discarded trailer.

Taking this sort of issue straight to the media is an aggressive measure, but he had already tried to contact the landowner and the local City council so I didn’t mind batting for him.

I contacted both of these late in the afternoon, and by next day the landowner had decided to start fortnightly inspections, and the City council to “revisit” the issue.

From The Great Southern Weekender, January 21, 2016.