Finnemore Street blues
Illegal dumping in Finnemore Street had become an eyesore, and some residents couldn't care less about keeping the suburb clean, despite the presence of municipal bins placed in the area.
The saga of dumped rubbish alongside Finnemore Street in Paradise and overgrown reeds and bushes in the Ncandu continues.
“Something needs to be done,” said one disgruntled resident.
Wishing to remain anonymous, the resident said overgrowth along the riverbed implicated the safety of residents.
“Unsavoury characters can hide among the reeds and trees and not be spotted,” he said.
Another concern was that Finnemore Street was often flooded during the rain season.
The resident said reeds and overgrowth made it difficult to keep a watchful eye on rising waters.
“The municipality needs to remove the trees and reeds,” he said indignantly.
He also claimed illegal dumping in Finnemore Street had become an eyesore, and some residents couldn’t care less about keeping the suburb clean, despite the presence of municipal bins placed in the area.
Ward 4 Councillor, Tanya de Jager, said skips for rubbish and dumping would be made available to Finnemore Street in the nearby future.
“I would like to thank the municipality for that and I am appealing to Ward 4 residents to keep a lookout for people dumping, so the perpetrators can be prosecuted. We would like to keep Newcastle clean, as it has been voted the cleanest town.”
The municipality’s communication department was contacted for comment, but none was forthcoming at the time of going to press.
