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ESTATE NEWS DAINFERN VALLEY RIVER CLEAN UP
CHALLENGE: POST STORMS
BY IAN GILLEY It was horrendous to see and disheartening to realise how society treats the
environment and our river systems. Do people not know that this rubbish
challenge was issued to Dainfern residents to help clean up the river. ends up polluting our entire water system as well as the wildlife that has
The call for help was initiated by Luis and accepted by Ian (both of to live and feed in it? It’s killing our animals and isn’t doing us humans any
A whom are members of the Security subcommittee), along with a good, either.
few residents who pitched up as family units that included young and older
members. The group gathered enthusiastically and got to work. Luis, with So, with only eight people taking up the challenge, and each person working
the help of Ferreiras Tile & Bathroom, undertook to sponsor a Castle Lite for about 60 minutes, 10 bags of rubbish were collected. It hardly looked
(and an Appletiser for the kids) for every bag of refuse collected. like we’d made much of an impact on the mountain of litter, but it gave us
Cleaned river area thanks to SERVEST and the Estate Management Team
a huge appreciation for the effort and time it must take to clean the length
Seeing the debris, rubbish and filth floating down the river when it and breadth of the river after a severe storm.
flooded the banks was bad enough. But residents were not prepared
for the mammoth task that lay ahead: in just one 30 metre area on the Here's a statistic to put this in perspective: The SERVEST team divert all their
riverbank was a mountain of litter – and this was what we focused on. resources to do river clean-ups after a severe storm. It takes them four days
You name it, we picked it up: slops, snuff containers, papers, lightbulbs, to complete the task. There is no sorting of the rubbish for recycling; it’s all
Styrofoam packaging, and more. about getting the area cleaned up quickly – until it floods again!
10 x 6-ton truck toads of refuse has been removed over the last 2 weeks!
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