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Echo crack 21-Dec-2011 At 12:57:48 PM Wollemi

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to council@bmcc.nsw.gov.au
date 5 December 2011

To whom it may concern,

the main Australian rock-climbing website has a trip report today, complete with photos, of rubbish accumulated at the base of Queen Elizabeth lookout (I think this is the area). This includes several shopping trolleys, a bus-stop sign and wheelie-bins and beer kegs.
Can anything be done to get this stuff helicoptered/winched out of the Jamison Valley adjacent to the Katoomba cliffs?

Could I also suggest ideas such as;
- council having a new standard of longer pole length burial and triple the amount of concrete used when erecting bus stops
- fining hotels for leaving beer kegs unsecured. I imagine individual kegs would have to be encoded/tagged with serial numbers, so they may be then traced.
- pushing for significantly increased penalties for vandalism + name-and-shame

With thanks, etc

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Just took a call from BMCC Community and Corporate Team to thank me at length for the email and ideas. I had to remind them that tourists probably can't see this stuff Vanessa and Neil encountered due the rainforest trees.
They said they would get someone down there soon, and also rock-climbing is not discouraged by council, but the 'track' directly below the cliff is currently off limits - others have applied for permission recently (for a certain something that council were not allowed to tell me [not that I asked]), and it was denied.
The land is jointly managed by BMCC and NPWS/Office of Environment and Heritage.