A FESTERING mess located behind Stockland Nowra will finally be cleaned up.
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The area with stagnant water, weeds, rubbish, stinking mud and dumped trolleys gives the impression that nobody cares about this area.
However, with Shoalhaven City Council now taking charge and with local group Nowra East Community Pride helping out hopefully this area will now be cleaned up after many years of neglect.
An internal council merit order, issued recently, means the area will be given priority and council will get on site and clean the area up.
Council also hopes Stockland management, as a good community citizen, will also help clean up the area.
Retail giants Coles and Woolworths, a month ago, were asked to remove all the abandoned trolleys which they did but they were soon replaced.
Ask community pride member Fiona Barber, who lives nearby, and she will tell you more clean-up work is needed.
“When the water gets low it’s the smell - it’s foul,” she said.
“The muck gives off a rotten stench which everyone can smell as they walk by.”
The pathway is a busy one with local residents and school children all regularly making use of it.
Deb Hargraves, another community pride member, said people, as they walk past the disgusting mess and possibly add to it with own rubbish, must think nobody else cares about this area so why should I?
“We want people to have pride in this area and not be a rubbish tosser,” Ms Hargraves said.
Ms Hargraves said she was sure as time goes on more people will change their attitude and help increase the pride within the Nowra East community.
More bins and a higher fence, so people can’t dump their trolleys, were among the suggestions made at a meeting on site this week attended by Shoalhaven City Council’s community safety officer Lilliana Hutchinson and the two community pride members.