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.
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 dump trucks. Friends of Swanson Foothills has been informed that two trucking companies that use unmarked dump trucks for illegal dumping are Reliance Civil and Zhonghe Civil.
However, Friends of Swanson Foothills has been advised that marked dump trucks are also engaging in illegal dumping (Affordable Drainage and Kaviz Trucking).
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.
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 look for large pits, holes or gullies on rural land when scouting for a new illegal dumpsite.
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 may 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 harder to sell.
The potential for illegal dumpers to turn threatening or violent if attempts are made to question or stop their activities.
