Two men who illegally dumped household waste in Coimadai have been fined $13,000 plus clean-up costs after Moorabool Council successfully had them prosecuted in the Ballarat Magistrates’ Court.
The court fined one of the men $5000 and $5000 in legal fees and the other $8000 and $440 legal fees. Both were ordered to pay clean-up costs of $12,284. The men both recorded convictions.
Moorabool Council was alerted to a massive amount of household goods and rubbish being dumped on the side of Reservoir Rd, Coimadai in January last year. Evidence from the rubbish led Council to two residents from a neighbouring shire who told Council they had paid a rubbish removal service to clean up and dispose of a large amount of rubbish from their home. An investigation proved this to be the case.