Barbara Bellamy doesn’t know what to do.
Despite concrete barriers, closing access roads and face to face communication, she can’t seem to stop people from dumping their garbage on her family’s property in the Hart.
“I don’t understand it. They could have gotten rid of this stuff for nothing.”
In October of last year, the Bellamys had to begin closing down the access road to their property, which had been open to the public for over 40 years, due to the almost constant offloading of trash.
Since that move, the number of illegal dumping incidents has decreased, according to Bellamy, but they continue to occur.
She said the family still allows neighbourhood families and children use the sand hill, but the most recent pile of garbage has now made it unsafe for them to even do that.
“Well now there’s gravel and concrete and sharp type projectiles so the kids can’t play on it now.”
“I don’t know what to do, this makes me so angry.”
Last year volunteers from the Spruce City Wildlife Association cleaned up approximately 2500lbs of trash and recycling from the Bellamy family’s property, but less than 24 hours after the site was cleaned, they returned to find that someone had dumped two loads of sod in the space they had just cleared.
The family is trying to turn their sandlot into a business, but the quality of sand they have is being compromised by the illegal dumping issue.
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