Volunteers found a pram, bike, pushchair and knives as they carried out a clean-up of Farnley Balancing Reservoir at the weekend.
WLD last week reported on residents’ concerns over household items and litter being dumped in to balancing reservoir, which prevents flooding further down the Wortley Beck catchment area.
This weekend a group of magnet fishers decided to do something about it – and have shared photos of what they found. View the slideshow below:
Brian Woolhouse told WLD: “We, as a group of magnet fishers, attack the spot and successfully managed to get several trollies out, a multitude of kids’ play vehicles, several knives, bike, pushchairs and many other things.
“Quite a few people commented on what we were doing and gave us a lot of praise. There are other areas which we could not get to sadly – hopefully whoever owns the reservoir [Yorkshire Water] will take note of what we had done. The group had consisted of Magnet Fishing for Amateurs, 1Man1Magnet and the 4 Magneteers.
“Overall it was a very rewarding day, this being the second environmental clean up we had done in seven days – the other being Ross Mills in Rodley where somebody fly tipped TVs, windows, doors and general rubbish.”
The knives will be handed over to the relevant authorities.
Yorkshire Water said last week that they are ‘looking at longer-term plans for the reservoir’.
- Meanwhile, volunteers from the Farnley & Wortley Litter Pickers Facebook group carried out three full days of litter picking over the weekend, collecting more than 60 purple bags as part of the city-wide annual Leeds Goes Purple campaign, run by Litter Free Leeds.
I saw these chaps on Sunday afternoon – well done to them for coming out on a lovely day to do this.