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Early morning noise pollution

  • 23-08-2011 9:37am
    #1
    antiskeptic
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    In recent times, my waste disposal service has taken to collection times as early as 6.00am - in all likelyhood aiming to miss the morning traffic which clogs up my area.

    The street I live in (which also serves as the sole entry/exit into a small estate) is fairly narrow with houses on both sides. You have this heavy diesel engine reverberating off the walls as it makes it's way slowly up the street.

    As it works it's way around the estate, concussion from the engine sets off car alarms - made worse by the fact the estate is a dead end and in working his way back, he sets off the car alarms all over again.

    Additionally, the hydraulic rams which compress the waste are driven from the diesel engine so the driver revs things up every few minutes to provide extra power to driver the hydraulic system.

    At the end of it all, he revs things up and roars back down our street and away. Once you're woken you can't think of getting back to sleep until he's finished - perhaps 20 minutes later.

    What is the legal position on creating this level of disturbance at such an early hour?


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  • #2
    NoQuarter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,632 ✭✭✭NoQuarter


    What you're talking about is "nuisance". In relation to refuse collecters, even though they probably are creating a nuisance, they would have a number of defences available to them I would imagine (necessity, statutory authority, prescription).


  • #3
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭antiskeptic


    NoQuarter wrote: »
    What you're talking about is "nuisance". In relation to refuse collecters, even though they probably are creating a nuisance, they would have a number of defences available to them I would imagine (necessity, statutory authority, prescription).

    I can understand the necessity of a cop siren but don't see an unavoidable operational necessity in picking up the rubbish so early.

    Indeed, it's the recycling stuff they pick up early, the landfill waste (which goes out on the same day) is picked up later in the morning.

    I imagine their getting two runs from the same crew. Would it be permissible to create a noise nuisance merely because it suits you financially to do so?

    It's only off late this has started off. They used to collect the recycling rubbish mid morning before - after the school runs were over.


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