Signs of an illegal dumper
- Flyer drops or Facebook ads advertising free “cleanfill”.
- Door knockers offering free “cleanfill”.
- Door knockers’ offering payment for use of your land for “cleanfill”.
- The amount of “cleanfill” being dumped on land. It can look like landscaping, but the volume is an indicator.
- Questioning whether the fill is “clean”. Contaminated fill can look like cleanfill. “Cleanfill” is almost always contaminated, so you could be allowing contaminated fill to be dumped on your land.
- The covering over of waste with cleanfill.
- Unmarked (white) dump trucks.
- Sheer volume of trucks coming and going on a stretch of road.
- Multiple dirty truck tyre marks coming and going from a property’s driveway and on the stretch of road leading up to it.
- Damaged driveway and roading around driveway due to digger.
- Potholes and poor state of country roads could indicate intense use by dump trucks with heavy loads that the country road cannot handle.
- Diggers are usually present at the site, compacting the fill.
- Illegal dumpers often target properties down long driveways with sites hidden from the road.
- Illegal dumpers love a large pit or hole in the land.
- Illegal dumpers usually come from nearby West Auckland development sites. Time is money for truck operators, so they prefer dumpsites that are close by.
- Once you let these people on your land, it will be hard to get them off.
- Stories of extensive property damage, continued dumping even when asked to stop, contamination of the land so that it becomes classified as HAIL (hazardous) land and hard to sell, the potential of illegal dumpers to turn threatening and violent.
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