New cameras have been installed around Bathurst to target people illegally dumping. Paul Toole and mayor Robert Taylor both spoke on the issue on August 16, 2023.
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00:00 EPA has provided $117,000 to Bathurst Regional Council and this is going to go towards tackling
00:05 illegal dumping here in the local area.
00:08 This $117,000 is going to go towards purchasing another four cameras in the local area.
00:13 Two of these cameras will be mobile and the other two will also be on trailers so they
00:18 could pop up at anywhere at any time across the local government area.
00:21 We've got the Waste Management Centre here, people need to go there, they need to put
00:25 it in where it belongs, not dump it out on the side of our rivers or in our parks and
00:30 recreational grounds that we see here locally.
00:31 If you do the wrong thing you will be caught and you will be fined.
00:34 The main thing is it's costing our local government money to come and remove all this illegal
00:41 dumping so with these mobile cameras and these cameras and the hotspots recognised we feel
00:45 that we could nullify that.
00:47 With these mobile cameras and especially the ones on the trailers, when there's a long
00:51 weekend or we think there's going to be an issue with illegal dumping they can be allocated
00:56 to those areas.
00:57 Around the COVID period there was an increase of illegal dumping by about 150, 160%.
01:03 Off the back of the first project we decreased that by 50% but it's still a big issue.
01:09 We want people to know that if they are planning or have an idea of illegally dumping that
01:14 the likelihood of them getting caught is very high.
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