Environmental pollution in Sallins

maggege

I was passing by the canal and noticed this:

http://imgur.com/hJMKT
http://imgur.com/tzMGw
http://imgur.com/PTcIJ
http://imgur.com/hDdRo

It looks like a used car oil, a smelly, black and oily fluid. This is not the first time when someone decided to get rid off it there. The path is full of that kind of spots where oil is covered with gravel. I can't understand why people are doing such things, just beside is a canal with ducks, swans and fish. Is it too expensive to give it away legally?

n97 mini

It's likely an accidental spill. Old engine oil can be disposed of at a recycling centre for free.

guil

n97 mini wrote: »

It's likely an accidental spill. Old engine oil can be disposed of at a recycling centre for free.

no it can't, kcc charge for it

245

That's 'official' pollution - pothole filling by KCC

Curlz24

Thats bitumen tar sprayed over the chippings in the pothole!

ronaneire

maggege wrote: »

I was passing by the canal and noticed this:

http://imgur.com/hJMKT
http://imgur.com/tzMGw
http://imgur.com/PTcIJ
http://imgur.com/hDdRo

It looks like a used car oil, a smelly, black and oily fluid. This is not the first time when someone decided to get rid off it there. The path is full of that kind of spots where oil is covered with gravel. I can't understand why people are doing such things, just beside is a canal with ducks, swans and fish. Is it too expensive to give it away legally?

As Curlz24 has said, it is not oil or nothing like it. It is KCC filling in potholes. People complain when they don't fill them in and people complain when they do fill them in :rolleyes:

Tabnabs

OP, I would highly recommend you forward your pictures together with location and any other relevant info to info@waterwaysireland.org

Waterways Ireland are the statutory body in charge of the canals and have responsibility for tow paths too.