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Environmental health chiefs were called out to a country lane near Carlisle after this pile of asbestos was dumped at the roadside.
The corrugated asbestos sheeting was found over the weekend on the Cotehill to Armathaite Road, near to a quarry entrance.
It was spotted by Cumbrian Newspapers’ head of imaging, Stewart Blair, who took this photograph. “Whoever dumped it obviously knew what it was because they’d put a yellow label on top of it clearly saying asbestos.”
The discovery is just the latest in a series incidents where asbestos has been illegally dumped – probably because it would cost more to hire specialists to dispose of the asbestos safely.
The material in question had been broken up, which runs the risk of releasing dangerous fibres into the air.
A council contractor ignored the rules when deadly asbestos was buried on a city nature reserve.
Instead of disposing of the asbestos correctly, the Enterprise employee shoved it into the ground at Alney Island.
He has since been relieved of his position and the fibrous material was dug up.
Barry Leach, from Gloucester City Centre Community Partnership, said: “I am disappointed an employee feels cutting corners is the way to do things. I hope measures are put in place to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”
Enterprise workers were called to the site in July after 20 travellers left tonnes of rubbish.
Among the waste was roof tiles from what is believed to be a garden shed. These contained asbestos.
Strict regulations surround the disposal of the substance, which is responsible for 4,000 deaths a year.
But although asbestos particles pose a serious risk to humans if inhaled, they do not pose a problem when in the ground.
Two lorry loads of rubbish, including bricks, rubble and asbestos, have been dumped on greenbelt land by fly-tippers.
The illegal rubbish tip appeared over the weekend, close to Delph Reservoir, on land off Stones Bank Road, Belmont, and was reported to landowner United Utilities yesterday.
Investigators said there were two loads dumped together — one from a demolition site and another of cardboard rolls and material cut-offs.
Blackburn with Darwen Council environmental crime officer Richard Waters was yesterday assessing the huge pile, looking for clues as to who may have dumped the rubbish.
Mr Waters said it was one of the biggest illegal tips he had seen in recent years.
A veteran health and safety campaigner from the city has now hit out at Carlisle City Council’s handling of the discovery at Jane Street, Willowholme, a short distance from Bridge Street.
Former Carlisle city councillor Elsie Martlew reported seeing the building rubble last Friday to Castle ward councillor Willie Whalen.
He has been a leading campaigner on asbestos related health and safety issues for several years.
Mr Whalen alerted council officials to his belief that asbestos was among the rubbish on October 7.
They responded by cordoning off the area with a plastic tape, but no signs were put up to warn the public of the asbestos risk.
Health and safety officials are investigating whether unlicensed workmen employed by the council left the public exposed to deadly asbestos after the substance was found in Fulham Library.
The alarm was raised by library staff after the material, which can cause cancer, was discovered behind a radiator during modernisation works of the ground floor while the library remained open.
It is being alleged that unlicensed workmen then carried the substance through the library’s public area, before dumping the toxic waste in the back garden.
The London Hazards Centre (LHS), which has passed on the complaint to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), says staff came to them after being fobbed off by library management, who insisted the material wasn’t dangerous. The matter is currently being investigated by the HSE’s prosecutions team.
Plans to dump potentially hazardous waste in Stowey Quarry have been quashed after council officials were told they could face a judicial review.
Resident David Elliott told Bath and North East Somerset Council he was prepared to take the fight over the former quarry site to the High Court.
Mr Elliot was told the council would now “look very differently at any application considering the evidence”.
Campaigners were worried asbestos could leach into nearby Chew Valley Lake.
A legal challenge has begun to stop asbestos waste being dumped next to one of the south west’s largest reservoirs.
Chew Valley Lake is in North Somerset, and is one of Bristol’s main water sources. However, Bath & North East Somerset (B&NES) Council has allowed the waste to be dumped in Stowey Quarry, which falls in their authority control but is next to the reservoir.
A campaign has been launched against the decision, and those against it say they will continue their fight.
Sarah Streatfield-James is from the Stop Stowey Quarry Asbestos Landfil campaign, she has told us they want B&NES to revoke the planning permission: “We fundamentally believe that the site is wrong.
THE HUNT is on for a fly-tipper who dumped a pile of rubbish, believed to contain asbestos, off a country lane near Peterborough.
The pile, off Gunthorpe Road, near to the Barn Garden Centre, was reported to Peterborough City Council yesterday by Councillor John Fox.
He said that he believes that the pile could include the dangerous mineral, which is responsible for around 4,000 deaths a year in the UK.
Cllr Fox said: “There were corrugated roofing sheets covered in what looked like asbestos to me. Any fly-tipping is unacceptable but if that is the case it is completely moronic as well. This is a regular place for fly-tipping and we need to stop it.”
Planners have defended their decision to approve plans for an asbestos dumping ground near Chew Valley Lake, despite concerns about health risks.
Bath and North East Somerset Council’s planning committee approved the proposals, that will see up to 645,000 tonnes of asbestos dumped at Stowey Quarry near Bishop Stutton, in July.
Residents, Bristol Water and parish councillors had all opposed the plans, and a campaign has now been launched calling for the decision to be reversed. Locals are concerned that the burying of asbestos near the lake could contaminate Bristol and the surrounding area’s water supply.
A protest rally against the development is due to take place tomorrow at 3.30pm at Chew Lake, organised by the Stop Stowey Quarry Asbestos Landfill group.
But the council says independent research has shown the risk of asbestos contaminating the water supply is “negligible”.
THE thought asbestos could leak into our water supply is horrifying.
Councillors in Bath have approved plans to dump thousands of tonnes of the toxic substance in a quarry near Chew Valley Lake.
That Bristol Water believes the plan presents a real danger to the drinking water for the city and its surrounding area is a huge concern.
Shockingly, Bristol Water says none of the reports presented to Bath and North East Somerset’s councillors fully explained the proximity of its reservoir to the old quarry, or the potential effect on springs flowing into the lake, even though it supplies water to tens of thousands of homes.
A Cornwall haulage and skip hire boss has been handed a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years, for illegally tipping asbestos waste in an area of “outstanding natural beauty”.
In an Environment Agency (EA) prosecution at Truro Crown Court, Michael Leah, director of Penzance-based Leah Ltd – which has gone into liquidation – was also ordered to pay £50,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act plus £4,000 costs.
During 2007 and 2008, Leah had illegally dumped waste, including asbestos, at three separate sites including two farms and a residential property in St Ives.
The court was told how about 9,000 tonnes of construction and demolition waste were dumped at Trenoweth Farm, Gweek over a six-month period in 2007 and 2008.
Leah said he had only deposited three lorry loads of subsoil at Trenoweth Farm, but was unable to verify this by supplying the relevant waste transfer notes.
A total of five other hauliers had earlier pleaded guilty to illegally depositing and disposing of controlled waste at Trenoweth Farm in contravention of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
A GROUP of hauliers and the director of a skip hire company have been ordered to pay almost £100,000 in fines and costs for illegally tipping thousands of tonnes of waste at a farm near Helston in Cornwall.
Truro Crown Court heard the offenders had dumped around 9,000 tonnes of construction and demolition waste at Trenoweth Farm, Gweek.
In addition to fines and costs, they were ordered to pay back profits they had made from their criminal activities under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Michael Leah, received a 12 month prison sentence suspended for two years and was ordered to pay £50,000 under Proceeds of Crime plus £4,000 costs.
At the time of the offences, Leah was director of a haulage and skip hire company and operated a licensed Waste Transfer Station at Ludgvan near Penzance. Waste was taken to the transfer station for sorting before being sent off for recycling, reuse or disposal.
An investigation by the Environment Agency revealed that during 2007 and 2008 Leah had illegally dumped waste, including asbestos, at three separate sites including two farms and a residential property at St Ives.
More than 50 bags of asbestos have been dumped near a fishpond on Gelligaer Common in Caerphilly county.
Environment Agency Wales launched an investigation after a member of the public reported the find to Caerphilly council.
It said the material did not present a danger to human health, wildlife or pollution to the pond, and some was even bagged correctly.
The clean-up is likely to cost thousands of pounds, it added.
An agency spokesperson said: “It seems as if the people who did this knew what they were doing in terms of bagging the material. To then simply dump it like this is completely irresponsible.
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