CCTV footage is being examined as part of an investigation to tracing those responsible for illegal dumping in the Rosemount area of Derry.
Furious residents of a street of Northland Terrace are hoping that the people responsible for dumping bags of household rubbish beside their homes may have been caught on a CCTV camera in the street.
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The incident marks the latest in an ongoing problem with illegal fly-tipping in back lanes and streets in the Rosemount area.
In the latest incident, bags of waste (pictured) were dumped beside homes in Northland Terrace, sparking anger among the residents.
Over the past year, a number of people, have been handed fines after being successfully prosecuted by Derry City and Strabane District Council for illegally dumping household waste in the street.
They were detected after officers from the council examined the rubbish and found that it contained letters marked with the home address of those responsible for the dumping.
Robert Nixon, whose Edenmore Street home backs onto Northland Terrace, said he now hoped those responsible for the latest fly-tipping incident would also be brought before the courts.
“This has been going on for a while now, and I’ve seen people pulling up in cars and throwing the stuff out before driving away,” he said.
“They just don’t care. It’s a health hazard, you see all the flies there, and it’s left lying outside someone’s house, the people living in those houses have to walk past that to get into their homes.”
Mr Nixon added that the level of fly-tipping in the area had left him feeling ‘embarrassed’ when people came to visit him.
“It is embarrassing when people are coming around to visit you, you just expect they’re thinking, ‘What type of place are you living in?’.
“It makes you so angry that you want to go out and lift it yourself but you don’t even know what you’re lifting, there could be broken glass of anything in there.”
Mr Nixon concluded: “I just hope that whoever did this was caught on CCTV.”
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