a lot of fill they use to make garden beds and to fill in holes on properties is worksite related junk. I'm suprised that you havnt realised this with your many properties.
Thanks for filling in the blanks Rob. I didnt think that this would have been in your lifetime - lol, but some very interesting details you shared there. Thanks matey
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Originally Posted by Rob_K
LOL, I'm not that old Paul! That goes back to the late 1800s when Melbourne was the premier city in Australia on the back of the colony's gold riches. It was called Marvellous Melbourne because of its grand buildings and wealth but many people called it Marvellous Smell-bourne because of the stench. The authorities were forced to address the problem and devised a vast scheme for removing sewage to Werribee. Much of the original infrastructure is still in use. I did a study on a part of it once, the Main Outfall Sewer from the western suburbs to Werribee.
I have to agree with Rob. When I was a kid living in Traralgon we quite regularly went for trips to Melbourne, and being kids this entailed regular stops to go behind a bush or be carsick. And I can remember that the sides of the roads (this is the late 60s early 70s) were basically rubbish dumps. Bottles, cans, wrappers, everything, and cigarette butts everywhere! It was nothing unusual to see throw rubbish out of cars.
You just don't see that anymore. Sure there are grots around and so on, but we are as a whole a lot more careful with our rubbish these days.
When the NT banned plastic shopping bags and introduced cash for cans and bottles about 2012 , I noticed a marked improvement in the state of the road sides and parks , yes as said here , most people are getting better but fast food trash is still there , shame ,
But there will still be 'Grots' ( I like that word ) .
I live in an apartment building and when I moved in I decided to put stuff I don't need in the garage. I left the door of the garage open while doing this because I thought nobody is going to steal that stuff in just a few minutes anyway. But they did something else. Somebody put an old couch in my garage while I was carrying down my own stuff, so they were pretty quick to notice the door of the garage was open (and it was not even completely open!). Luckily I don't have a car or it would have been very difficult.
Not long ago we lived in a town with high levels of unemployment and generational poverty; vandalism, litter and theft were par for the course. Our letter box was bent from various attempts to dislodge it, a neighbor could never keep all of the palings on his fence, bottles/cans thrown into our yard from passers-by, people fighting on the nature strip, etc. (Many phone calls to the police). We installed a security system after a theif broke into a few of our neighbours houses. On two other occasions attempted break-ins were thwarted either by us or our dog.
For the last 18 months we've lived in a good area of a less disadvantaged town and I can report just one broken bottle on the driveway. We're very happy with the move.
Bang on Tony , on my drive from Darwin to Perth down the west coast I seen some really terrible places like you describe , piles of rubbish every where , every fence full of bags, packaging etc ,, ugly !.
Drunk people 'Hum bugging ' you all the time ,, horrible places to live , I was glad I was only passing thru .
Went for a couple of hour drive today to join a rally at the Upper Florentine Protest camp in S.W. Tassie. Freezing cold, slippery roads and a long way from anything but I had to see whether anyone else would show...
Well, you had to park up to 4 km away from the meeting place because the road verge in both directions was crowded with cars. Couple of thousand people showed up to send a message to our estemed morons in state and federal "impairment". The rumble of discontent is rising
If you ever get a chance to visit the region, DO IT! It's about as close to Gondwanaland as you'll ever get and I guarantee you'll never forget it. Time of year is irrelevant; its a place that simply defies words.
When the NT banned plastic shopping bags and introduced cash for cans and bottles about 2012 , I noticed a marked improvement in the state of the road sides and parks , yes as said here , most people are getting better but fast food trash is still there , shame ,
Bang on Tony , on my drive from Darwin to Perth down the west coast I seen some really terrible places like you describe , piles of rubbish every where , every fence full of bags, packaging etc ,, ugly !.
horrible places to live , I was glad I was only passing thru .
