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Environmental pollution in Sallins

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  • 19-06-2012 3:44pm
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    maggege
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭


    I was passing by the canal and noticed this:

    http://imgur.com/hJMKT
    http://imgur.com/tzMGw
    http://imgur.com/PTcIJ
    http://imgur.com/hDdRo

    It looks like a used car oil, a smelly, black and oily fluid. This is not the first time when someone decided to get rid off it there. The path is full of that kind of spots where oil is covered with gravel. I can't understand why people are doing such things, just beside is a canal with ducks, swans and fish. Is it too expensive to give it away legally?


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    n97 mini
    Registered Users Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    It's likely an accidental spill. Old engine oil can be disposed of at a recycling centre for free.


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    guil
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    n97 mini wrote: »
    It's likely an accidental spill. Old engine oil can be disposed of at a recycling centre for free.
    no it can't, kcc charge for it


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    245
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    That's 'official' pollution - pothole filling by KCC


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    Curlz24
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    Thats bitumen tar sprayed over the chippings in the pothole!


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    ronaneire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭ronaneire


    maggege wrote: »
    I was passing by the canal and noticed this:

    http://imgur.com/hJMKT
    http://imgur.com/tzMGw
    http://imgur.com/PTcIJ
    http://imgur.com/hDdRo

    It looks like a used car oil, a smelly, black and oily fluid. This is not the first time when someone decided to get rid off it there. The path is full of that kind of spots where oil is covered with gravel. I can't understand why people are doing such things, just beside is a canal with ducks, swans and fish. Is it too expensive to give it away legally?

    As Curlz24 has said, it is not oil or nothing like it. It is KCC filling in potholes. People complain when they don't fill them in and people complain when they do fill them in :rolleyes:


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    Tabnabs
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    OP, I would highly recommend you forward your pictures together with location and any other relevant info to info@waterwaysireland.org

    Waterways Ireland are the statutory body in charge of the canals and have responsibility for tow paths too.


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