Ian mate, you HAVE got to pick up the goddamn phone!
Once you have, then give it a big heave in the direction of the yobs. You might miss but you'll feel a whole lot better. Don't let it fall in the river though mate, that wouldn't do at all.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Litter on the path is DDC's responsability. Once it is kicked into the river it becomes an EA management problem and it is down to them how this is done Because of the blurred line between responsibilities everyone seems content to pass-the-buck and offer platitudes instead of solutions. Ian, thanks to all his hard work for the river, has been at the sharp end of this for years so knows it better than anyone.
With all the current cutbacks each agency will be hanging on to their own little bits of authority and anything that crosses the line, such as litter, is likely to be even more difficult to address for the foreseeable future.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Sorry Ian, I missed this thread about the river, and was looking for it to get that EA at Pencester on here. Did you see Tom Reid, or do you still have some dealings with him? Some good pics above mate for him to view.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
All power to Ian's elbow. I hope he gets some sense out of someone soon. However the problem is not limited to the river. I had a roll along the seafront yesterday, and there were plastic bottles, baby wipes, fish and chip wrappers and fag ends all over the place. But, we can all do our part. I picked up as much of the rubbish as I could reach and we binned it.
However, I do think the ultimate was reached when we spied a car parked with, pegged onto the railings and merrily dancing in the breeze, a pair of knickers, a top, and an incontinence pad!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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at least you did not spot me diana.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Rubbish collected today from Barton Path by the volunteers of the WCCP. Similar amounts were collected from Buckland Bridge, Pencester and Dover College.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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not surprised about dover college, anyone who uses the footpath to the side will regularly witness the inmates of said college casually lobbing their detritus into our river.
it seems that they have perpetual breaks there.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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Good on the Volunteers.
Sorry to say...........give it a week and we are back at square one.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i think the volunteers know that, thankfully they still do it otherwise there would be more rubbish than water.
i sometimes wonder what the ducks, moorhens etc think of us humans.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Possibly the same as the rest of the animal world Howard, TRASH! Well done, and thank you to those volunteer`s, and hope to join you soon.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
