Partygoers turning viewing spot at Dobroyd Head into ‘garbage tip’ with evident of drugs, booze
Partygoers are turning a popular viewing spot near a northern beaches headland into ‘a garbage tip’, with bongs, booze, CO2 canisters and even fuel being dumped at the site.
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OFFICIALS have been urged to crack down on partygoers dumping piles of disgusting refuse after late night raves in a harbourside national park.
Balgowlah Heights residents say they are frustrated with young people leaving empty beer and wine bottles, drug-taking paraphernalia, cardboard packaging and food wrappers at a site near Dobroyd Head.
Revellers recently set fire to an old sofa and a five-litre can of petrol was discovered at a disused 20th century concrete military bunker, used for the parties, just off the popular Manly to Spit Bridge Walk.
Soiled beanbags and dozens of small nitrous oxide canisters — used by partygoers to get high — were strewn around the site, in Sydney Harbour National Park.
One resident told the Manly Daily that they recently had to put out a small bushfire near the party spot with a garden hose.
The resident said young people arrived in taxis and cars at the carpark on the end of Cutler Rd before walking down a bush track carrying portable coolers and torches.
“There are hordes of them sometimes on weekends,” the resident said. “It’s quite an organised thing. They bring their own music and stay until early the next morning and then we hear them leaving.
“One night a nasty fight broke out in the carpark.”
Another resident wrote on a Facebook page that the spot had become a popular venue for “drug and alcohol binges”.
“But I’ve never seen it this bad. There is smashed glass everywhere, countless bottles of alcohol, bongs, CO2 canisters, rubbish strewn everywhere, beanbags and worryingly, a five-litre can of fuel,” the post said.
“It needs to be cleaned up and then deterrents in place to stop it happening again. It’s the complete lack of respect and treating this beautiful area as a garbage tip. It’s always a small few who wreck it for everyone else.”
Manly state Liberal MP James Griffin said he was disappointed with the rubbish dumping.
“I’ve asked (National Parks and Wildlife Service) to immediately look at how we can clean this up,” Mr Griffin said.
“I am grateful to community members who brought this to my attention and I strongly encourage people to report illegal dumping like this to National Parks or the Environment Protection Authority.”